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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 illness does Ketch say that the aborigines have?

2. In Act Two: Scene 1, who is in chains?

3. Why does Arscott think he should be in the middle for the bow at the end of the play?

4. In Act Two: Scene 6, what does Ketch have to do?

5. What is the occupation of Silvia's father in the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Act Two: Scene 9, what do Clark and Mary do at the end of the scene?

2. What conversation do Mary and Clark have before the play begins?

3. Why is Arscott not at the rehearsal in Act Two: Scene 5?

4. What does Phillip say about humanity and about redeming Liz Morden?

5. What does Caesar say about escaping and dying?

6. How did Liz become a criminal?

7. Why does Clark end the rehearsal in Act Two: Scene 7?

8. What does Duckling say and do when Brewer dies?

9. What is the aborigine thinking at the beginning of Act Two: Scene 11?

10. What happened when Tom Barret was hung?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

None of the convicts have acting experience. What type of character is Mary to play in The Recruiting Officer? Why does Mary think that she cannot play the role of Silvia?

Essay Topic 2

Liz was seen with Kable before the food was stolen. What evidence was there that Liz had stolen the evidence? Why is the evidence flimsy? Was Liz convicted because of guilt-by-association?

Essay Topic 3

Convicts can be flogged or hanged for crimes like stealing food. Is flogging an inhumane punishment? How do officers like Ross humiliate prisoners? Are the convicts treated inhumanely?

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