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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. Whom is Estelle watching down on Earth?
2. What does Gardin admit to?
3. Florence crept out of bed and...
4. Which character killed herself by gas poisoning?
5. How did Garcin attempt to flee?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Estelle so upset when she sees Olga tell one of her lovers the truth?
2. Why does Inez lie about Estelle's pimple?
3. How does Garcin feel when Estelle tells him that it does not matter if he is a coward as long as he kisses well?
4. Why does Inez describe Estelle's mouth as cruel?
5. Why did Garcin say he treated his wife so badly?
6. Although both Inez and Garcin pressure Estelle into telling them why she is in the room, at the end of the section, why is Estelle only angry with Inez and not Garcin?
7. How is Inez's volunteering to be the mirror for Estelle symbolic?
8. What do you think of Inez's promise to not do Garcin any harm if he leaves her and Estelle in peace?
9. Why does the image of a young couple making love in her apartment so upset Inez?
10. Why did Garcin flee to Mexico, and what does it have to do with cowardice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the off screen aspects of this play are visions the characters have of their former lives and survivors back on earth. Each of the three sees visions of how life is carrying on without them.
Pick either
A) Garcin,
B) Estelle or
C) Inez
and describe what they see when they look back to earth. Be sure to explain what they literally see and what they tell the others in the room about it. Also describe what their vision represents, either symbolically or in terms of the guilt and denial the characters are experiencing.
Essay Topic 2
Consider the order in which Sartre introduces the characters into the room. Write an essay that considers the following:
1. Why does Garcin come first? What are the advantages to the story and to the tension that will develop to having him introduce the play and anchor the action?
2. If you were Sartre, would you have put Inez on stage next? Is it significant that she and Garcin are in the room alone for a few minutes before Estelle joins them?
3. Discuss Estelle's introduction to the room (the color of the sofa, etc.) and describe how it heightens the growing tension in the room.
4. How does the order of the characters foreshadow the very end of the play?
Essay Topic 3
Inez proclaims herself cruel, saying "I'm your lark-mirror, my dear, and you can't escape me....There isn't any pimple, not a trace of one. So what about it? Suppose the mirror started telling lies? Or suppose I covered my eyes--as he is doing--and refused to look at you."
1. Contextualize this passage in terms of the section of the scene it comes from: What is happening when Inez says it?
2. Analyze what role the mirror symbol plays in this section. Why use this symbol right now?
3. What does it demonstrate about Garcin's relationship to Estelle?
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