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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 many terminally ill people are in this play?

2. Why is Joe's interview halted?

3. Which of the following is the best definition of taboo?

4. Where is Joe hospitalized?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why weren't Joe's wife and son regular visitors while he was in the hospital?

6. How does Felicity feel about her treatment so far at the hospital and where does she sometimes think she is?

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

8. How did Agnes describe Felicity after her husband died?

9. What does the interviewer say that makes Agnes rethink her position?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe the author's use of flashbacks and memories is helpful to the audience? Why or why not? Do you think this play would have been as important without the flashbacks and memories? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think Felicity's hostility toward the interviewer symbolizes? Why do you think she takes it out on her daughter? Do you think Agnes handles her mother well? 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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