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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 does young Billy announce when he enters the living room?
2. Who doubts what he says he saw?
3. What is Norman's response to Ethel's reply?
4. About what does Billy say Norman talks to him while they are out fishing?
5. What does Ethel do after Norman and Billy leave?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Ethel's concern and role in that day's fishing venture.
2. What does Ethel do after Norman and Billy leave?
3. How does the way Ethel behaves in helping Norman and Billy get off to the lake demonstrate an aspect of her personality?
4. What does this opening scene suggest about the relationship between Norman and Billy?
5. Referring back to your answer in question #25, venture a guess as to why Chelsea's boyfriends were timid around Norman.
6. Describe the opening scene in Act 2, Scene 1.
7. Describe the first interaction between Ethel and Chelsea when they are alone.
8. Describe Bill's appearance and Billy and Norman returning from downstairs and how does this give readers a sense who Bill is?
9. What regret does Norman express and what may that regret foreshadow?
10. Describe the interaction between Norman and Bill after the others have gone outside.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the very first scene of the play, it is already obvious that one of the themes will be daughter/father relationships. Answer the following questions in a coherent essay using detailed examples from the entire play:
1). Give your opinion about how you think Norman and his daughter will get along, just based upon the little that is revealed in the first scene of the play.
2). The part of the first scene where Norman looks at Chelsea's picture of her in a swimsuit as a teen is a technique called foreshadowing. What does this foreshadow? Is this an effective method to clue the reader in on some future action in the play? Why or why not.
3). Are you as a reader prepared to like Chelsea or not based on what is subtly revealed about her in this first scene? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
In the opening to Act 1, Scene 3, Norman comments to Ethel that Chelsea is now past her childbearing years and never had a child. Choose one of the following to write a coherent essay with detailed examples:
1). For many centuries, women were considered property, or at the very least, someone to produce a male heir for the family line. Write an essay briefing describing the change in status of women in your home country over the past three centuries.
2). Is woman's most important function that of producing children? Write an essay about how women who have chosen to remain childless are viewed in your culture; give specific examples. Give your personal opinion also.
3). Along with the idea of childbearing is the controversy of the right to choose an abortion. Write an essay taking a stance using detailed examples to support your stance.
Essay Topic 3
In Act 1, Scene 2 when Charlie comes inside, he knocks the screen door off its hinges and offers to help repair it, but Norman refuses his offer, just as Ethel refused Charlie's offer initially to fix the door.
Answer the following questions in a coherent essay using detailed examples from the entire play:
1). Why do you think Ethel refuses Charlie's help with the screen door?
2). Why do you think Norman refuses Charlie's help with the screen door?
3). Do you think the reasons they refuse are influenced by their gender?
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