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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 are the Schlepkin brothers to Glogauer?

2. What does this person that May encounters think about the trio's diction school idea?

3. The setting of this scene has a _________ interior.

4. How does the trio feel about getting to their destination.

5. How do they feel at first about Jerry's news?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does May receive from George?

2. What makes Vail decide to leave?

3. Describe Jerry.

4. Describe the scene in the lobby.

5. What has happened to the original plan during the trio's travel?

6. How do they feel about the trip?

7. Describe the setting.

8. How does this scene open?

9. What does Glogauer's secretary announce?

10. What does May discover about Jerry? What do these two realize about each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters are identified quite easily at the beginning of the play.

Part 1) By what are they identified?

Part 2) Describe each of the three main characters.

Part 3) Why would this play and these characters be appealing to a 1930s audience?

Essay Topic 2

George falls in love with Susan Walker.

Part 1) Who is Susan Walker? How does he meet her?

Part 2) Why does he fall in love with her? How do his feelings for Susan affect his friends?

Part 3) How does his love for her affect her life? Does she love him? Why might she love him?

Essay Topic 3

Lawrence Vail is distraught over his career in Los Angeles.

Part 1) What is his career?

Part 2) Why is he distraught?

Part 3) Where does he end up, due to this anxiety and unhappiness? What does this say about writers and other artists?

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