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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 does Jean say hurts in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

2. What does Jean say he doesn't believe in in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

3. On what is Dudard's report in Act 2, Scene 1 of Rhinoceros?

4. What didn't Jean recognize about Berenger in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

5. What does Jean do during the argument with Berenger in Act 1 of Rhinoceros?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ionesco connect rhinoceros ideology to that of fascism in Rhinoceros?

2. What is Berenger's reaction to the first rhinoceros in Act 1 of Rhinoceros?

3. Who is the old man who lives next to Jean? What does he tell Berenger in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

4. What is the association between ethical morality and the rhinoceroses in Rhinoceros?

5. How does Jean's demeanor transform in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

6. What characters are realistic in Act 1 of Rhinoceros? Which are not?

7. What is the logician teaching his friend in Act 1 of Rhinoceros?

8. What is Berenger's argument against the rhinoceroses in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros?

9. Whose presence startles Berenger in Act 1 of Rhinoceros? How does he react? Why?

10. Is Jean's transformation in Act 2, Scene 2 of Rhinoceros a voluntary one? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Botard and Dudard in Rhinoceros. How are these characters philosophically opposed? How are they similar?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of bourgeois life and bourgeois values in Rhinoceros. How do the characters represent this? How does Ionesco feel about bourgeois values based on the play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the stylistic elements of the Theater of the Absurd and how these are reflected in the three plays from Rhinoceros, and Other Plays.

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