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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 is Alice's job?
(a) Writer.
(b) Diplomat.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Doctor.

2. Brock says that when Susan talks about the war and starts cleaning her gun, he is going to ________________.
(a) Get kicked out.
(b) Hear more lies.
(c) Hear more war stories.
(d) Hear more confessions.

3. What is the product in Susan's advertising project?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Cars.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Hats.

4. Who does Susan choose to father her child?
(a) Lazar.
(b) Mick.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Brock.

5. What industry is Susan thinking of getting into?
(a) Manufacturing.
(b) Music.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Healthcare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alice doing at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 6?

2. What character is sleeping as the play begins?

3. Who is the young man who joins Susan?

4. What topic does Susan question Darwin about regarding her husband?

5. How does Mick refer to the sky?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how the author ends the play on a hopeful note for Susan.

3. What is the purpose of the meeting with Susan, Darwin and Brock?

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

5. Explain how this scene finally explains the source of Susan's vast emptiness?

6. What is the significance of the word "plenty" as Susan mentions the party food?

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

8. Why does Susan use her gun on Mick at the end of the scene?

9. What is the setting for Act 1, Scene 1 and who are the first two characters to appear?

10. Describe the radio program that begins Act 2, Scene 9.

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