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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. Hippolytus cannot remember the last time he did what in Scene 4 of "Phaedra's Love"?
(a) Left the castle.
(b) Called his mother.
(c) Went to the races.
(d) Received a gift.

2. When did Sarah Kane die?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2000.

3. Who is a drug dealer and doctor, and he is the commander of the university and concentration camp in "Cleansed"?
(a) Tinker.
(b) Carl.
(c) Rod.
(d) Graham.

4. Who is the prince in "Phaedra's Love"?
(a) Phaedra.
(b) Hippolytus.
(c) Strophe.
(d) Theseus.

5. What does Phaedra enter with in Scene 4 of "Phaedra's Love"?
(a) A new coat.
(b) Presents.
(c) A new car.
(d) A giant cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the soldier demands that Ian, as a journalist, report the atrocities he has told him in "Blasted", what does Ian reply?

2. What does Grace ask Robin if he can do in Scene 3 of "Cleansed"?

3. What does Strophe say the public wants to do to Hippolytus in Scene 5 of "Phaedra's Love"?

4. What does the soldier do while raping Ian in "Blasted"?

5. Who does Ian ask Cate to find in Scene 4 of "Blasted"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Hippolytus doing in the beginning of Scene 4 of "Phaedra's Love"? What does Phaedra enter with?

2. Describe the dynamic between Ian and Cate in Scene 1 of "Blasted." How are these characters different?

3. Describe the setting of "Phaedra's Love". Upon what play is the story based?

4. How many works are included in Sarah Kane: Complete Plays? What themes tie the works together?

5. Where is the opening of "Cleansed" set? Who is in the first scene?

6. What is Sarah Kane's purpose in showing such graphic violence in "Blasted"?

7. What elements of the setting are revealed in greater detail in Scene 2 of "Blasted"?

8. What is the focus of "Blasted" following the soldier's suicide?

9. What is Ian's response when the soldier asks him to report his stories? What does the soldier then do?

10. What is the symbolic and thematic center of "Cleansed"?

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