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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. Where did Elyot and Amanda spend their honeymoon?
2. What does Sibyl want to avoid?
3. What does Amanda say they must do before they leave for Paris?
4. What does Elyot say that Amanda initially resists?
5. What does Amanda forbid Victor from doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Amanda and Elyot choose Paris to run away to?
2. What would be the best way to describe the relationship between each of the married couples?
3. How does Elyot know that Amanda's statement of the two of them being in love all over again is false?
4. In Act I, Amanda proclaims to Victor that women should hold some mystery. Later, Elyot tells her that she holds no mystery for him and she responds that she is glad. Why?
5. 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?
6. What does Elyot's pastime of traveling the world imply about his character?
7. 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?
8. At the start of the play, is Elyot in love with Sibyl? How can the reader tell?
9. What is Amanda's outlook on the violence in her previous marriage that is so shocking to Victor?
10. Why would Victor say to Amanda that she was frightening him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is it important that these characters are rich and upper-class? How would this play have changed if Amanda and Elyot were not as rich as they are written? Is the glamor and sophistication absolutely necessary? How does it affect the fights? Do you believe that this is meant to be a statement on the behaviors of the upper-class? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
When Victor is questioning Amanda in Act III, she claims that she hates Elyot, though she is deeply attracted to him. Does Amanda truly hate Elyot? Can she hate him and have an attraction? How? Keep in mind how loving she and Elyot are to each other, including the fact that they make up and leave together at the end.
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