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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Joy and Lewis joke about?
(a) Warnie.
(b) English culture.
(c) Their secret marriage.
(d) New York.

2. What does Lewis' participation in the marriage indicate?
(a) His tenderness toward Joy.
(b) His protection of Warnie.
(c) His wish to have children.
(d) His desire not to be alone.

3. As scene 5 opens, Lewis and Warnie are preparing for what?
(a) Joy's visit.
(b) A lecture at Oxford.
(c) A trip to France.
(d) Christmas.

4. Joy is from what country?
(a) South Africa.
(b) The United States.
(c) Australia.
(d) France.

5. In what country is the play set?
(a) England.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Russia.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Warnie offer to Joy?

2. In what decade is the play set?

3. What is Lewis doing as the scene opens?

4. Who is skeptical about Joy's intentions?

5. What topic does Lewis address in his first words?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lewis and Joy make plans to do? What does Douglas do as they are getting ready to leave?

2. What does Lewis say about pain, suffering, and love? What benefit does he believe that suffering has?

3. What does Lewis say about his friendship with Joy? Does this reassure Warnie?

4. What does Lewis do to help ease the tension between him and Joy? What do they discuss?

5. What are Lewis and Joy's interactions like? What does Joy do that surprises Lewis?

6. Where does the scene open? What is happening? Why is the event happening at this office?

7. What does Lewis' decision reveal about him and his feelings? How will this decision affect him and those around him?

8. What is Joy's condition like? How is she feeling?

9. What do Lewis and Joy discuss in the scene? How do they feel after this conversation?

10. What letter does Lewis receive? What does the scene reveal about the sender?

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