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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. Who does Hetty think can read her thoughts?

2. What does Hetty tell Harriet she embodies?

3. What signals Jack and Hetty to stop flirting?

4. What is the name of Jack's alter ego?

5. Why is Maggie angry that Harriet declines the offer of tea?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margaret react to seeing John and Harriet kissing?

2. What does William tell John about his background?

3. Why is John's alter ego, Jack, in shock when he first appears?

4. How does Margaret surprise John in the final act?

5. What does Jack want to do as he admires Harriet's form?

6. Why does Harriet want William to flatter Margaret?

7. What problems do John and Margaret have in Act 2?

8. What moment in Act 2 suggests John and Margaret's marriage is in trouble?

9. How does William disappoint Harriet when he first meets Margaret?

10. How does Harriet persuade Margaret to leave the apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Margaret's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the one she is at the end.

1. What did Margaret hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Margaret's ideas about life?

3. How has Margaret's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

What is the play's premise? Why are premises so important to a story?

Essay Topic 3

Gerstenberg gives three of her main characters alter ego's with names that she has abbreviated from his or her's full name. For example, Harriet becomes Hetty. Pick one of the following characters and his or her alter ego and examine what meaning his or her's name brings to the two sides of his or her's personality:

1. Harriet/Hetty.

2. Margaret/Maggie.

3. John/Jack.

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