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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 is Susan using for her advertising?

2. What does Susan hint that Brock can bring back for her from Morocco?

3. What does Susan do as Mick rants and refuses to leave the apartment?

4. What has Susan been doing all night?

5. In what country does Act 1, Scene 2 take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Susan tell Alice to tell Brock when he awakens?

3. What does Susan's gun symbolize in this scene?

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

5. How does the author use the radio announcer as a contrast to Susan?

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

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

8. What is Susan's thinking about having a child without any emotional ties?

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

10. Who is Alice and how did she and Susan meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study of Susan. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Alice. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of loneliness as it exhibits in the story. Which of the characters are lonely? Are they all lonely in some way? Explain the loneliness and the methods and attempts to overcome it.

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