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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susan call Tony?
(a) A loser.
(b) A man among men.
(c) A prince of a guy.
(d) Slow moving.

2. Mick suggests that Susan thinks ___________________.
(a) He is a bad lover.
(b) He didn't really want her to get pregnant.
(c) He is too young to father a child.
(d) It's his fault that she is not pregnant.

3. What is Susan working on?
(a) New curtains.
(b) An advertising assignment.
(c) Dinner.
(d) A novel.

4. In what country does Act 1, Scene 4 take place?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) America.
(d) Germany.

5. What does Brock advise Susan to do?
(a) Buy a house.
(b) Return to America.
(c) See a psychiatrist.
(d) Get on with her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mick say that Susan enjoyed about having sex with him?

2. What does Susan call Brock's fellow diplomats?

3. What does Susan tell Alice to tell Brock when he wakes up?

4. What does Brock ask Susan as she eats his omelet?

5. What is the only reason Susan would consider getting married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of Mick's reference to a "mackerel" sky.

2. What is the situation in which the author gets the meaning for the book's title, PLENTY?

3. What is the setting for Act 2, Scene 10?

4. Explain how the author uses the concept of plenty as Susan both rejects it and searches for it.

5. How does Act 1, Scene 5 begin?

6. How does the author use the symbol of the barrage balloon to show Susan's boredom?

7. Who is Mick and how does he enter the scene?

8. How does the author use the embalming symbolism to relate it to Susan?

9. How does Act 1, Scene 3 begin?

10. What is the setting for Act 1, Scene 4?

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