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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 is the temperature like in the room?
(a) Mild.
(b) Too cold.
(c) Warm, but bearable.
(d) Too hot.

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

3. How many years was Estelle happily married?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 2.

4. Who shows Garcin the way into the room?
(a) Inez.
(b) Valet.
(c) Florence.
(d) Estelle.

5. How many times was Garcin shot?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Garcin say always got on his nerves?

3. What does Estelle say she cannot stand a man in?

4. Inez recognizes what a torturer looks like from...

5. How many sofas are there in the room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Inez believe Garcin to be her torturer?

4. Why are eyes and "not looking at each other" symbolically important at this part in the play?

5. When Garcin asks the Valet what is outside the room, what does the Valet say?

6. Why does Sartre introduce Estelle with her concerns about the sofas?

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

8. Why does Estelle refuse Inez's offer of her sofa?

9. How do you know that these characters are dead and in hell, despite the fact that Sartre does not explicitly state it?

10. What makes Inez realize that they are supposed to be each other's torturers?

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