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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. What refers to people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Balkans.
(c) Jews.
(d) Kurds.

2. What refers to having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a song-like outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic?
(a) Lyrical.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Rockin'.
(d) Poetic.

3. Who is Billy's old black neighbor in "Skin"?
(a) Neville.
(b) Jacques.
(c) Marcel.
(d) James.

4. What sprouts across the stage as Tinker enters in Scene 10 of "Cleansed"?
(a) Roses.
(b) Tulips.
(c) Daffodils.
(d) Sunflowers.

5. In the second half of "Crave" who discusses the affairs he is having?
(a) B.
(b) C.
(c) A.
(d) M.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comes from a Turkish word meaning "a chain of wooded mountains"?

2. What does the doctor tell the protagonist in Part 2 of "4.48 Psychosis"?

3. The dynamic of C and who has reversed in Part 2 of "Crave"?

4. What does A speak in the final moments of "Crave"?

5. What Lennon/McCartney song do Rod and Carl hear in Scene 13 of "Cleansed"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the play "4.48 Psychosis" begin with in its opening? What is the protagonist's objective?

2. Why does Kane cite the atrocities of the world in "4.48 Psychosis"? How does this relate to other plays of the anthology?

3. What is B's central role in "Crave"? What does he express in the ending?

4. Discuss the setting of "Crave." How does the setting evoke the play's themes?

5. What is the central theme of "Crave"? How is this illustrated through the characters?

6. How does "4.48 Psychosis" reflect an Aristotilian aesthetic?

7. What happens at the cafe in "Skin"?

8. What theme is central in the play "4.48 Psychosis"? How does this tie to the other plays of the anthology?

9. What character does M take on in the second half of "Crave"? How does A change in Part 2?

10. What is described in the introduction for "4.48 Psychosis"?

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