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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the soldier urinate in Scene 2 of "Blasted"?

2. Where does Tinker inject Graham in Scene 1 of "Cleansed"?

3. What does Ian ask Cate to find and give to him in Scene 4 of "Blasted"?

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

5. What does Carl ask Rod to accept in Scene 2 of "Cleansed"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What aspects of Ian's personality are revealed in Scene 2 of "Blasted"?

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

4. What is the central theme of "Phaedra's Love"?

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

6. Who does Grace meet with in Scene 3 of "Cleansed"? Where do they meet?

7. What takes place in the opening of Scene 2 of "Blasted"? How much time elapsed from Scene 1?

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

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

10. Who breaks into the hotel room in Scene 2 of "Blasted"? What does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of Ian in "Blasted". How old is Ian? For what paper is he a journalist? How old is Ian?

Essay Topic 2

Define the literary and dramatic terms "objective," "obstacle," "action," and "conflict." How do each of these apply in Scene 2 in "Blasted"?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the setting and physical elements of "Crave". What does the author write by way of stage directions?

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