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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. What does George think is the window to the world?
2. What survival tools has Nature given the duck?
3. What does Emil think the old men of the Ancient Greeks were incapable of doing?
4. What group of people does George say are modeled after animals?
5. What, according to George, is the Law of Life?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does George talk about symbiosis?
2. What aspect of barnyard ducks' lives do George and Emil agree they are better off not knowing?
3. What do George and Emil worry about for a duck in flight?
4. What do George and Emil think about hunting ducks and stuffing them?
5. What occurrences are part of George and Emil's belief that everything has a purpose?
6. What point does Emil make about the wild Buffalo?
7. Why did the Ancient Greeks watch birds?
8. What does Emil predict with happen in the future with disposing of leaves?
9. What are some of the items the men claim are needed to hunt a duck?
10. With what example does George contradict Emil's statement that nothing can live alone?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
During a fight with Deborah, Danny claims he does not mind physical violence but cannot abide emotional violence. What insight does this gives about Danny's character? Examine scene twenty-eight where the argument occurs. What is Deborah's complaint against Danny? What is Danny ultimately unable to bring to their relationship? How, again, does each character attempt to gain the power back in the relationship?
Essay Topic 2
The Duck Variations deals with the impending, inevitable deaths of Emil and George through metaphors with ducks and nature. Do you think the playwright's metaphors were too thinly veiled to be interesting? At the end of the play, did you care about Emil and George? Is the play a discussion between two aging men, or the philosophic musings of a playwright? Do you think this should have been written as a play, or would an essay have sufficed to express the sentiments and questions posed? Examine some dramatic criticisms of the play and present your argument. Be sure to cite your sources.
Essay Topic 3
Emil and George are older men watching the world they knew change around them. How do they use the duck as a metaphor throughout the play? What aspects of the world do they imagine the duck to represent? Why do you think the playwright chose a duck for his play and not another type of bird? What answers do Emil and George think nature holds for them?
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