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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 Alice smoking as she sits on the floor?

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

3. Which of the following things does Susan NOT do in Act 1, Scene 2?

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

5. Where does Brock ask Susan to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Act 1, Scene 5 begin?

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

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

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

6. How does Act 1, Scene 3 begin?

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

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

9. What is the foreshadowing in the appearance of the Frenchman?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

PLENTY is set in the 1940s and 1940s during a time of World War II and its accompanying social, political and cultural recovery. What impact did these factors have on the author? What impact did these factors have on his work, especially the play, PLENTY? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The author uses more than one theme in the play. Identify at least two themes in the play. Then cite an example to support each theme.

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