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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. 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) Gin.
(d) Coffee.

2. A begins "Crave" assuring C he is not what?
(a) Homosexual.
(b) Heterosexual.
(c) A cop.
(d) A rapist or pedophile.

3. The depression of the protagonist in "4.48 Psychosis" renders her unable to do anything, even sex or what?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Writing.
(d) Acting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who represents the damaging male figure that wounded C in "Crave"?

2. "Skin" begins in a flat located where?

3. Billy in "Skin" is described as being what?

4. Which characters in "Crave" are men?

5. The protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" claims that at 4:48 a.m., everything becomes what for a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist of "4.48 Psychosis" resemble Sarah Kane?

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

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

4. Discuss the character dynamic in the first half of "Crave." Who pursues who?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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