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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 memory do Amanda and Elyot reminisce over after their spouses have left in Act 1?
2. To where do Elyot and Amanda plan to run away?
3. How do Amanda and Elyot realize that they are sharing a terrace in the hotel?
4. When Elyot is trying to convince Sibyl of premonition of disaster, what does he say will possibly happen?
5. What separates the two terraces in the first scene?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the significance of "Solomon Isaacs?"
3. How does Elyot know that Amanda's statement of the two of them being in love all over again is false?
4. Why do Elyot and Amanda both lie to their spouses about the reasons they should leave the hotel instead of just telling the truth?
5. What is Amanda's outlook on the violence in her previous marriage that is so shocking to Victor?
6. Why does Sibyl keep asking Elyot about Amanda?
7. Why would Victor say to Amanda that she was frightening him?
8. 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?
9. Why do Amanda and Elyot choose Paris to run away to?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Amanda declares to Victor that, "Chance rules my life." What does she mean by that? What does she do throughout the play that requires taking a chance? Using specific examples and actions from the text, argue whether Amanda really means what she says and, if so, how chance plays a part in the plot and her character development.
Essay Topic 2
Elyot claims that women are all manipulative and crafty. Do you believe that Amanda and Sibyl are particularly manipulative? If they both are manipulative, is it in the same way and to achieve the same goals? Why or why not? What is the point of the manipulations? Are Victor and Elyot manipulative as well?
Essay Topic 3
Victor and Sibyl appear to be two dimensional characters who are firmly stuck in their roles as man and woman. Do you consider these characters to be particularly intelligent? Does their intelligence or lack thereof affect their exaggerated femininity or masculinity? What are some specific examples of these characteristics? How do the other characters react to these qualities? Do you believe that these exaggerations cause their big breakdown at the very end of the play? Were they forced out of their passive roles by Amanda and Elyot's rampant challenging of how men and women are expected to act?
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