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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. Who does the protagonist imagine waking to find her dead in "4.48 Psychosis"?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

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) Poetic.
(b) Rockin'.
(c) Lyrical.
(d) Sonnet.

3. The protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" paints a bleak portrait of the hospital where she was last treated, all ____ and cloying doctors appraising her.
(a) Blackness.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Gin.

4. In Part 2 of "4.48 Psychosis", the protagonist lists a series of goals, including better self-understanding and what?
(a) Going to court.
(b) Quitting smoking.
(c) Leaving her husband.
(d) Avoiding pain.

5. The narrator's room in "4.48 Psychosis" describes her room at that time as crawling with what?
(a) Unease.
(b) Ants.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sprouts across the stage as Tinker enters in Scene 10 of "Cleansed"?

2. What young skinhead girl opens the door to Billy in "Skin"?

3. Where does the protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" always wander into, hoping to see her doctor?

4. In what room does Scene 12 of "Cleansed" take place?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tinker attempt to help Grace in the second half of "Cleansed"?

2. What takes place while Billy is at Marcia's apartment in "Skin"?

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

4. What acts of love are presented in the ending of "Cleansed"?

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

6. What plot threads emerge in the second half of "Cleansed"?

7. Where do the skinheads cause a brawl in "Skin"? Where does Billy flee?

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

9. Why is Grace beaten in Scene 10 of "Cleansed"? Who appears to her in this scene?

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

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