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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. Why does Felicity continue to lash out at the interviewer?

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

3. Why has Brian started to write again?

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

5. What does Felicity tell the interviewer to undermine Claire?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brian react to the situation between Beverly and Mark?

2. Why is Joe's first reaction to the interviewer is quite awkward?

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

4. What happens when Felicity demands Agnes take her back to the cottage and what does the interviewer do that surprises Agnes?

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

6. What admission does Maggie make to Joe about their son Steve?

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

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

9. What is happening at Joe's cottage in the beginning of act 2?

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

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

How does the author include the clinical nature of death in American society in this play? Which characters express this idea? How do they express it?

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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