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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 garbage dominates the apartment at the beginning of the play?

2. How many children does Felix have?

3. Where does Felix go right after his wife throws him out?

4. What is Felix's wife's name?

5. What major event happens to Oscar before the play starts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Felix refuse to go the Pigeon sister's apartment, and how does Oscar react?

2. What does Oscar demand that Felix does right before leaves?

3. When the Murray, Speed, Vinnie, and Roy leave the first poker game, what do they say, and how does Oscar reassure them?

4. Why does Oscar offer to let Felix move in?

5. Why do Oscar and his friends watch Felix very closely when he first arrives?

6. Describe the friends with whom Oscar plays poker.

7. What does Frances want when she calls Felix, and what does this make Felix realize?

8. When the Pigeon sisters arrive with Felix, what do they say to Oscar?

9. When the other poker players start to complain to Oscar about Felix, how does Oscar respond?

10. What does Felix expect from his date with Cecily and Gwendolyn, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List your first impressions of Oscar and Felix in the first scene, and analyze whether these impressions prove to be correct.

Essay Topic 2

Describe what a foil is, and explain how Oscar and Felix are foils for each other.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze how Neil Simon manages to present serious situations in a humorous light.

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