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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 does Garcin suggest they all do?
(a) Order takeout.
(b) Get themselves in order.
(c) Tell each other a story.
(d) Wait for the valet.

2. Who sees Olga in a vision?
(a) Garcin.
(b) Inez.
(c) Estelle.
(d) Florence.

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

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

5. Whom does Inez believe to be her torturer, at first?
(a) Estelle.
(b) Valet.
(c) Garcin.
(d) Florence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Estelle die of?

2. What kind of newspaper did Garcin run?

3. Where was Garcin shot?

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

5. What does Inez realize first?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Garcin in his shirtsleeves stand for? Why does Estelle say she cannot stand a man in his shirtsleeves?

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

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

6. Why do you think the author shows Garcin looking at his colleagues relaxing at the end of the day, smoking cigars?

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

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

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

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

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