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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julie respond to Jean's claim about what to do in such a battle?

2. Who does Jean think is walking up and down in the room above him and Christine?

3. What does Miss Julie's face look like when she enters the kitchen?

4. Why doesn't Julie care about Jean's hotel scheme?

5. Why does Jean tell Julie that she should have learned how to chop off a chicken's head instead of shooting a revolver?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of family in the playl?

1. How does it function?

2. What power dynamics are in play?

3. Who has power within the family and why?

4. How does the nobility and its subjects mimic a traditional family?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the degradation and submission of Julie, considering the following:

-Pretend and real.

-Jean's end game.

-The lowest point for the character is the high point of the play.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1880s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes Europe was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1880s Europe?

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