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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 sister.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her mother.

2. What does the protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" consider the truest thing she does?
(a) Writing.
(b) Loving.
(c) Crying.
(d) Sleeping.

3. What refers to that possessing knowledge, especially esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters?
(a) Aware.
(b) True.
(c) Psychic.
(d) Gnostic.

4. Who is being beaten in Scene 10 of "Cleansed"?
(a) Grace.
(b) Carl.
(c) Tinker.
(d) Rod.

5. What refers to the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II?
(a) The Arian Revolt.
(b) The Ending.
(c) Holocaust.
(d) The Grand Inquisition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" want to do?

2. 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?

3. In Part 2 of "4.48 Psychosis", the protagonist counts down from 100 by what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what state does the protagonist awaken in Part 2 of "4.48 Psychosis"?

2. For whom did Kane write "Skin"? Who is the film's central character?

3. What is the central theme of "Crave"? How does this relate to the other works in the anthology?

4. What characters are central in the first half of "Crave"? What do they discuss?

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

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

7. How does the protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" describe death? What treatment does she describe in her past?

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

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

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

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