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

2. What profession does Brian have?

3. What did Joe ask Maggie to do?

4. About how old is Felicity?

5. What does Joe believe his illness has made him more of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Claire?

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

3. What does Joe tell the interviewer about his wife Maggie and her understanding of his condition?

4. Why did Joe discourage his wife and son from spending the money and time to come visit him in the hospital?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did Brian's wife leave him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does the interviewer seem to be omnipotent? Do you believe the interviewer is a higher power? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How does the author use the interviewer to explore each character in a more in-depth way? What other technique could the author use to achieve the same result? Which do you believe would be more effective? Why?

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