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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. In what year did this play win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award?

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

3. What is Brian's perspective on death?

4. What does Brian say about day-to-day basis life can be?

5. What draws Joe's attention to the interview area?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Beverly finishes her dance performance?

2. How does Felicity react to the interviewer?

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

4. What is Brian's perspective on Death?

5. What does Maggie agree to do after she realizes that their life together has gone by too fast?

6. How does Joe feel about his life as he sits reminiscing with his wife?

7. What was Joe's reaction to learning that his condition had become terminal?

8. Why did Brian's wife leave him?

9. How does Mark feel about Beverly's behavior and how does Brian feel about it?

10. What specifically about his illness has made Joe very angry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the theme that is explored at the end of the play? Do you agree that it is the most important theme of all of those explored throughout the play? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think the patients and their families each lived life to its fullest while they were alive? Why or why not? Do you think someone dying will always have regrets? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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