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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Inez do for a living?
(a) Postal clerk.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Cook.
(d) Secretary.

2. When Inez refers to a cafeteria, "Where customers serve themselves," what is she talking about?
(a) That they are each other's torturers.
(b) That Estelle only knows fancy parties.
(c) That the valet is late with dinner.
(d) That she used to cook for her cousin and his wife.

3. Estelle's husband was...
(a) A doctor.
(b) Much older.
(c) An important politician.
(d) Young and athletic.

4. Garcin says that they should all sit there...
(a) Telling each other their stories.
(b) Yelling for the Valet.
(c) Singing.
(d) Silently.

5. Who is smoking cigars in one of the visions?
(a) Garcin's colleagues.
(b) Florence.
(c) Olga.
(d) Estelle's husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked Estelle to run away with him/her?

2. What does Inez say a torturer looks like?

3. Whom does Garcin see in his vision?

4. What was Estelle's brother like?

5. Who asks the Valet if they can turn out the lights?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think that one of these characters is more truthful than the other two? If so, which one?

2. Describe Inez's reaction to the Estelle's and Garcin's reasons for why they are in the room.

3. When Garcin asks Inez how she knows what a torturer looks like, what does she say?

4. Why are there no toothbrushes or beds in the room?

5. What are some of the things that cause tension between Inez and Garcin?

6. Describe, at this point in the play, the nature of hell.

7. When Garcin is asked why he is in the room, what does he say? Do you believe him, and why or why not?

8. Why is Estelle surprised to see that Garcin's face is fine?

9. What does Estelle say about why she thinks she is in the room?

10. What are some examples of foreshadowing in the first part of the play?

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