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

2. Why was Joe released from the hospital?
(a) To spend time with his family.
(b) To keep others from catching his illness.
(c) To be able to keep track of his progress more carefully.
(d) Because there was nothing else they could do for him.

3. Where is Joe hospitalized?
(a) California.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Massachutes.
(d) Florida.

4. What does the interviewer tell Joe he is available to do?
(a) Teach him how to accept his fate.
(b) Help him deal with his emotions.
(c) Listen anytime.
(d) Talk to his family.

5. What is unique about where Joe is staying?
(a) It has enough rooms for all of his family.
(b) It is a specially equipped cottage.
(c) It is designed to allow his body to heal.
(d) It has no privacy as people can see into the cottage at all times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the interviewer do to make Joe relax?

2. Where is the setting for the opening of this play?

3. What has caused regular visits between Joe and his family to be prohibitive?

4. How does Brian end his interview?

5. Which of the following is the best definition of what it means to be socially taboo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Beverly finishes her dance performance?

2. How does Joe break the news about his condition to his son?

3. How does Maggie feel about going into the cottage?

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

5. How does Beverly react to Mark's information about Brian's condition?

6. What changed Joe's opinion about Maggie and Steve visiting him?

7. What was Agnes's rationale for taking on the duty of writing the letters to her mother?

8. How does Felicity react to the interviewer?

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

10. Describe how the stage would look as the play opens.

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