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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 Mr. Webb say a groom should never do?

2. What interrupts Emily as she is doing her homework during the second scene?

3. At the beginning of the play, what does Mrs. Gibbs do when she first comes out of her house?

4. At the beginning of the play, what is Mrs. Gibbs doing just as her husband comes home?

5. What does the stage manager say that the third act will be about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emily hurt George's feelings?

2. What question does Emily ask her mother as they tend to the beans together?

3. How does the stage manager describe weddings in Grover's Corner?

4. What does the stage manager say that this wedding of George and Emily is a witness of?

5. Who is the first character to speak in this play?

6. How does Mrs. Soames feel about weddings?

7. What does the stage manager say we do not know much about from ancient civilizations?

8. Why does Dr. Gibbs give George a handkerchief after reprimanding him for not doing his chores?

9. What does Emily demand of George just before they are married?

10. Why does George run out of the church just before his wedding is to start?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

This play takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affect the course of the plot. Why might Thornton Wilder have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

What are the titles given to the three acts in this play, and what significance do they have to the plot?

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