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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 is the Young Woman's second complaint?

2. Why is the Young Woman's husband "in the wrong batch?"

3. What characterizes the Prisoner's family?

4. The second time the guard jabs the Old Woman in Act 2, it's because she said, "I have _______."

5. What time is it in Act 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Sergeant referring to in his last line in Act 4 where he says "these people?"

2. What do the soldiers represent?

3. How separate is the Old Woman from the other characters in Act 2?

4. Why are the rules for dogs absurd in Act 1?

5. How does the Sergeant's attitude in Act 4 compare with his attitude in Act 3?

6. How does the Sergeant describe the gathering at the beginning of Act 3? Why?

7. Why does the guard prod the Old Woman with a stick as she talks to her son?

8. Why doesn't the Old Woman help her son?

9. Why is the Sergeant annoyed when he enters in Act 3?

10. Why does Sarah Johnson look like an "intellectual?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss "men" in Mountain Language. Discuss their attitudes towards women and their authority. What is Pinter's commentary on men and masculinity?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what the capital signifies: how it defines general humanity and society and what it represents.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what Sarah Johnson's character reveals about women in the context of the play and its broader statement about humanity.

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