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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 prisoner remains in chains in Act Two: Scene 5?

2. Where does Caesar want to go in Act Two: Scene 1?

3. Who are rehearsing in Act Two: Scene 7?

4. How many parts does Wisehammer have to play in The Recruiting Officer?

5. What music is played as the play begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What questions does the aborigine have about the colonists?

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

3. What advice does Wisehammer give Mary during a rehearsal in Act Two: Scene 7?

4. How did Liz become a criminal?

5. What does Sideway want to do after the play?

6. What do Mary and Ketch say about the "savages" watching the play?

7. What does Wisehammer want to do after the play?

8. How does the play begin?

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

10. What does Phillip say that Socrates demonstrated about a slave boy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the play and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

The aborigine in the play is not sure what to think of the colonists. Why is the aborigine not sure what to think of the colonists? How does he relate the colonists to dreams? Why does he decide that the colonists are not a dream?

Essay Topic 3

Convicts were transported to Australia to serve their time. For what type of crimes were convicts in the play hanged or sentenced to exile? Were the convicts given fair trials?

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