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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 Tracy offer Mike the use of?
2. What does Tracy say to Mike about his writing?
3. How do Tracy and Margaret react to Sandy's deal with the magazine?
4. What do Mike and Liz comment on about Dinah?
5. What does Tracy do when Uncle Willie arrives?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Mike and Liz's thoughts of Tracy before they meet her and how are they significant?
2. How are Tracy and Mike alike? How are they different?
3. What is the discussion Mike and Liz have about people's names?
4. How does Dexter resolve the situation between Mike and George at the pool and what does it illustrate?
5. How does George view being featured in the magazine, and why does it surprise Tracy?
6. What do Tracy and Mike decide about the previous evening's events and the wedding? Also, how does Tracy begin to realize exactly what might have happened?
7. What do Sandy and Liz talk about with regard to Sidney Kidd in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2, Part 2?
8. What does the audience learn about Tracy's first marriage in the first part of Act 1?
9. What does Mike tell Tracy about her upcoming marriage at the pool, and how does she respond?
10. How has Mike changed in Act 3 and why is it significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Tracy and Liz are parallel characters in many ways. What are some examples of how they are placed in similar situations, but respond differently? What issues do they share similar views on? Overall, what is Liz's main purpose in the play? What does she illustrate in Tracy's character, along with Tracy's own actions? Why is this important?
Essay Topic 2
What are the key points that Dexter makes about Tracy during their argument before the pre-wedding dinner? Why do these points have such an impact on Tracy? What do they confirm about her personality that she may have already been thinking? How does Tracy choose to respond to them? Why?
Essay Topic 3
What is Dinah and Tracy's relationship? How is it depicted in the beginning of the play? Describe what Dinah does to cause Tracy to remember the events of the night before with Mike. How does it alert some of the other characters to those events and contribute to the possible doubt of the pending marriage? Why was it necessary to establish Tracy and Dinah's interaction with one another early, and how does it prepare the audience for Dinah's part in revealing the information about Tracy and Mike's evening? Why do you think the author chooses Dinah to be the messenger for this information?
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