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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. When Felix is locked in a bathroom overnight, what does he do?

2. How is Speed's personality best described?

3. How many times is Felix late for poker before the play begins?

4. Why is it difficult to breathe in Oscar's apartment when the play begins?

5. Why do the other players make fun of Vinnie in the first scene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the poker players think that Felix is in danger of hurting himself?

2. How is Gwendolyn different from Cecily?

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

4. When Felix and Oscar argue in the second act, why is Oscar upset with Felix?

5. What are the poker players generally trying to do when Felix arrives?

6. What are each of the Pigeon sisters' marriages like, and why do they end?

7. What is Felix obsessed with? Why do you think this is?

8. Why does Felix bring the Pigeon sisters to Oscar's apartment at the end of the play?

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

10. What happens to Felix's dinner, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Analyze how the setting of The Odd Couple influences the story.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how both Felix and Oscar change as characters throughout the play.

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