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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. Where does Anna draw this person's attention?

2. What does this play have to do with women?

3. Why does Mary leave?

4. Why is Anna repelled?

5. To whom is Harry married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who provides Anna a sense of future?

2. How does Anna speak during this game?

3. How does Anna feel at this point in the game?

4. Why is Harry unhappy?

5. What does Anna tell Dave?

6. Of what is Harry tired? Why?

7. What is over between Anna and Dave?

8. What is the setting of this play?

9. What does Tom say to Anna when Mary leaves to answer the door?

10. What form does Dave's regression take?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anna's husband has died.

Part 1) How might he have died? Why?

Part 2) How has his death affected her? Has she been able to move on? Why or why not?

Part 3) Will she eventually marry again? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The theme of independence is very important.

Part 1) How is this a theme of the play?

Part 2) How does this theme affect each character? Why?

Part 3) Are they all capable of finding independence? Why or why not? Do they all want to be independent? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Anna has a vision of a tiger.

Part 1) Describe this vision. How is this vision symbolic?

Part 2) Why might the author have chosen this as the title of the play?

Part 3) How is this tiger vision connected to the theme?

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