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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. How do Amanda and Elyot realize that they are sharing a terrace in the hotel?
(a) Amanda hears Elyot shouting at Sibyl.
(b) Amanda hears Elyot singing one of their favorite songs.
(c) Amanda asks Elyot for a cigarette.
(d) Elyot sees Amanda with her new husband.

2. Who is the oldest character of the four introduced in Act I?
(a) Amanda.
(b) Victor.
(c) Elyot.
(d) Sibyl.

3. According to Amanda, what rules her life?
(a) Love.
(b) Chance.
(c) Fear.
(d) Anger.

4. What does Elyot tell Amanda that comforts her?
(a) Elyot tells Amanda that Victor will take care of her.
(b) Elyot tells Amanda that she holds no mystery for him.
(c) Elyot tells Amanda that Sibyl is a good woman.
(d) Elyote tells Amanda that she is doing the right thing.

5. In which country is Act I set?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Portugal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elyot tell Amanda before he tries to leave the terrace?

2. What appears to be one of Elyot's pastimes?

3. When Sibyl and Victor leave, what do Amanda and Elyot do with the cocktails?

4. Where do Amanda and Victor plan to eat dinner?

5. In what building does Act I take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Amanda's outlook on the violence in her previous marriage that is so shocking to Victor?

2. What would be the best way to describe the relationship between each of the married couples?

3. To Sibyl's dismay, Elyot does not care for her mother and believes that Sibyl married him in part to escape her. What do the differing attitudes about the mother reveal about Sibyl's character?

4. Amanda describes her marriage to Elyot as, "two violent acids bubbling about in a nasty little matrimonial bottle." Why would she use those words and what images do they provoke?

5. Why do Amanda and Elyot choose Paris to run away to?

6. What does Elyot's pastime of traveling the world imply about his character?

7. How does Elyot know that Amanda's statement of the two of them being in love all over again is false?

8. Victor and Sibyl both use nicknames for Amanda and Elyot (Mandy and Elli), though Amanda and Elyot always refer to each other by their full names. What is the significance of the use of nicknames in regards to these four characters?

9. Why do Elyot and Amanda both lie to their spouses about the reasons they should leave the hotel instead of just telling the truth?

10. When Elyot implores Sibyl that they must leave the hotel, Sibyl is uncharacteristically firm and stubborn about staying. What happened throughout the act that may have given her more of a backbone?

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