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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. Susan takes a break from packing to do what?
(a) Eat lunch.
(b) Smoke a cigarette.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Watch TV.

2. What is the setting for Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) A jazz club.
(b) Susan's apartment.
(c) Mick's apartment.
(d) A cafe.

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

4. Whose sudden appearance makes Susan mad?
(a) Brock's.
(b) Lazar's.
(c) Mick's.
(d) Denny's.

5. What does Susan complain about?
(a) The weak coffee.
(b) The cheap cigarettes.
(c) The ungrateful French.
(d) The cold weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mick do when Susan shoots the gun?

2. Who is the young woman on whom Alice is applying paint?

3. What does Susan tell Mick that she wants?

4. What does Susan invite Mick to do?

5. In what country does the play begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the radio interview foreshadow in the story?

3. What does Susan say about Brock's condition?

4. What does Susan share with Lazar about her life as it is now?

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

6. How does Act 1, Scene 7 begin?

7. Who is Charleson and what is Susan's purpose for meeting with him?

8. How does the author end the scene so that the first scene of the play now makes sense?

9. What is the setting for Act 2, Scene 12?

10. What is the symbolism of Lamar's reference to sound waves?

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