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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. How old is Steve?

2. Who does Felicity say Agnes is like?

3. What is Brian sharing as the interview area switches to highlight him?

4. How does Brian respond when he sees Beverly at the cottage?

5. How does Felicity says that she and Claire communicate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What thoughts turn Maggie's fear into anger?

3. What warning does Beverly give to Mark before she leaves?

4. What is wrong with Joe and why is he staying in the cottages?

5. Why do you think Agnes suffers from psychosomatic headaches?

6. What happens when the interviewer brings up these doubts and alternate ideas to Agnes?

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

8. What does Beverly think that Mark's life is based on?

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

10. Why did Brian's wife leave him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the play the stages of grief are exposed to the audience. What are the stages of grief? Describe how the characters show these stages in different ways? Do you believe everyone goes through these same stages? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Brian seem to be more sophisticated and evolved than the other patients? Why do you think this might be the case?

Essay Topic 3

How effective do you believe the author is at tying together three individual stories which all have one unifying theme? Do you believe the play would have been more effective had he told only one story? Why or why not?

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