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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. Where is the setting for the opening of this play?
(a) A cottage.
(b) A doctor's office.
(c) A hospital room.
(d) A hotel room.

2. What does Brian believe would allow people to live more authentic lives?
(a) Fighting to live for as long as possible.
(b) Believing in an after life.
(c) Refusing to accept their own fate.
(d) Admitting the reality of their own death.

3. What does Beverly try to do to handle the hostility between her and Mark?
(a) She calls to the interviewer.
(b) She tries to use humor.
(c) She yells at Mark.
(d) She walks away.

4. Why has Brian started to write again?
(a) He doesn't want to leave anything unsaid or undone.
(b) Mark has inspired him to help him write again.
(c) He needs to find something to do to pass the time.
(d) He wants to leave a clear legacy behind.

5. What caused Maggie and Steve to come to see Joe?
(a) He begged them to come and visit.
(b) They insisted that they had to come one last time.
(c) The hospital insisted that they come immediately.
(d) He no longer has the option to go home.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old is Felicity?

2. How does Joe react to what Maggie has done to Steve?

3. Who is Mark?

4. Felicity often has troubles with which of the following?

5. What does Maggie talk to Joe about at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Brian tries to join Beverly in her dancing?

2. What is happening in Brian's cottage as act 2 opens?

3. What is the main plot line of the play, The Shadow Box?

4. Why does Mark want Beverly to leave the cottage?

5. What happens that leads Agnes to finally recognize that her mother is senile?

6. What term does the interviewer used to explain the situation to Agnes?

7. How does the interviewer find Joe as s/he talks to him and why does he seem this way?

8. What was Mark doing before Brian took him in?

9. What did Beverly tell Brian he had lost the magic and zest for and how did Brian rationalize this?

10. What is happening at Joe's cottage in the beginning of act 2?

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