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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. What does Felix mention that he and Frances are planning to do?

3. What are the other poker players worried Felix does?

4. How old does Felix say he is when he is toilet trained?

5. Where is The Odd Couple set?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How and why do Felix and Oscar argue at the beginning of the final scene?

3. When Felix arrives at the first poker game, what does he admit to doing, and how is the situation resolved?

4. When Oscar asks Felix to move in, what does Felix start doing? What does this foreshadow?

5. What does Oscar expect from his date with the Pigeon sisters, and why?

6. What does Oscar tell the other poker players to do in the last line of the play, and what does this show about Oscar?

7. How do the other poker players respond to the news that Oscar has thrown Felix out, and why?

8. Why is Felix upset when Oscar arrives the night of their date with the Pigeon sisters?

9. How is Gwendolyn different from Cecily?

10. What does Felix urge the poker players to do during the second game, and how do they react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze how Oscar, Felix, and the Pigeon Sisters demonstrate gender norms of the time period in which the play is set.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why you think Felix is so compulsive about neatness and order. What does this gain for him?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the marriages and divorces of Oscar and Felix, and analyze what these events reveal about them as characters.

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