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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. Who teases Lewis about Joy?

2. What topic are the men joking about?

3. How does Warnie feel about this news?

4. What does Warnie prod Joy about?

5. What does Joy's son wonder about Lewis' book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Warnie and Lewis doing as this scene opens? What does Lewis admit to Warnie?

2. Describe the wedding that takes place. What is Douglas doing while the wedding takes place?

3. What does Riley tell Lewis about? How does Lewis feel about what Riley tells him?

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

5. What stereotype does Warnie have about Americans? What does he mean by his statement?

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

7. What are the men talking about? How do their views differ?

8. What does Lewis ask Douglas about that Douglas doesn't respond to? What does Douglas' lack of response say about the situation?

9. What do Joy and Lewis talk about? What does Joy ask Lewis?

10. What does Lewis ask Joy? How does she feel about this request?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Lewis and Warnie's impressions and feelings about Joy in the first act of the play. How to the two men see Joy? How do their feelings change and evolve about Joy through the play?

Essay Topic 2

How does Joy's illness affect the characters in the play? How does she handle her illness? What message do you think the play has about illness and suffering?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Warnie and Lewis. What differences are there between the two men? What similarities do they share? How do the men react to Joy's presence in their lives?

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