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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Delia claim was the model for Camus' The Plague?
2. How many students are there to assist on the dig?
3. What does Delia claim they were doing to her at the hospital?
4. What is Delia's profession?
5. Who enters the darkness with a flashlight in the end of Act 1 Part 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What topic do the characters Delia and Dan bond over late in Act 1? How do their stories connect?
2. How does the word "excavation" relate literally and figuratively in the play? What is being excavated in both senses of the word?
3. What is the overall theme of The Mound Builders? How is this theme portrayed?
4. Describe the character of Cynthia. Who is she in relation to the main character? How old is she? What is her profession?
5. What fact about Jean's character does Dan ask that August not reveal to the others early in the play? Why?
6. Describe how Delia's perception of the human eye as a child relates to her perceptions about the world today.
7. Describe the term which refers to the use of projections in the play. What effect does this theatrical device serve?
8. Who references a Chinese puzzle box in the play? What does this metaphor relate to?
9. Who's character studied books written by Delia in college? How did he/she feel about those books?
10. Compare the characters of August and Chad. How are they alike? How are they different?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Lanford Wilson chose to title this play, "The Mound Builders?" What does that title reflect in the action of the play? How is it symbolic to the theme?
Essay Topic 2
What does the building of the dam signify in The Mound Builders? How does water, rain, and flooding tie into the play both literally and metaphorically?
Essay Topic 3
What are the legacies of the supporting characters in The Mound Builders? What is Delia's legacy? What is Chad's? What is Jean's?
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