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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 genre of play is "Private Lives?"
2. In Act I, Sibyl asks Elyot about Amanda. According to Elyot, what does Amanda do beautifully that Sibyl can not do?
3. What does Amanda call Victor in Act 1?
4. What are Victor and Sibyl doing at the end of Act I?
5. What does Elyot accuse Sibyl of being?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Elyot's pastime of traveling the world imply about his character?
2. How can the reader interpret Amanda's statement about a person's private life?
3. Elyot remarks to Sibyl that, "Apart from loving me and all that, you must have plans." What does he mean by that and why would he accuse Sibyl of it?
4. At the start of the play, is Elyot in love with Sibyl? How can the reader tell?
5. Why do Amanda and Elyot choose Paris to run away to?
6. 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?
7. When discussing the possibility of getting a sunburn, Amanda remarks to Victor, "I did so hope our honeymoon was going to be progressive" in response to his declaration that he could not love her anymore than he already does. What does this statement portend about Amanda's views on relationships, particularly her marriage to Victor?
8. How does Elyot know that Amanda's statement of the two of them being in love all over again is false?
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. What is Amanda's outlook on the violence in her previous marriage that is so shocking to Victor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Elyot believes that he and Amanda could have had happy, albeit boring, lives with Victor and Sibyl. What examples from the text point to him being right or wrong?
Essay Topic 2
The stage directions and dialogue are very direct with how the characters should look. Discuss the physical characteristics, clothing, and age of each character and how it reflects upon each character. Why is it important that Sibyl is seven years younger than Elyot or that Victor is in his mid-thirties? What about the difference in costuming between Amanda and Sibyl? How do the characters appear to each other?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Sibyl's reaction to meeting Amanda and vice versa.
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