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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 the setting for Act 1, Scene 4?

2. What does Susan tell Alice before she leaves?

3. What does Susan complain about?

4. The composer of the musical program being broadcast suffered from what disease?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Susan's latest plan to add some excitement to her life?

3. What is the scope of the conversation between Brock and Darwin regarding Susan's mental health?

4. How does Act 1, Scene 7 begin?

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

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

7. Describe Brock's reaction when he finally loses patience with Susan.

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

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

10. What is the scope of Susan and Mick's relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In more than one instance in the play, a "mackerel sky" is cited. Explain what a mackerel sky is. Then cite the examples of how it is used in the play. What is the significance of a mackerel sky to the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the taboo of homosexuality in the 1940s and 1950s. Compare and contrast homosexuality during the 1940s and 1950s to homosexuality today. What major changes have occurred, both positive and negative?

Essay Topic 3

Hare uses more than one instance of irony in the play. Cite at least two other examples you can identify in the play and note why they are examples of irony.

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