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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 does Samant call Benare that offends her in Act one?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A schoolmarm.
(c) An educator.
(d) An instructor.

2. What is Samant carrying in his hands when he enters in Act One?
(a) A lock and key, toy parrot, and a book.
(b) A toy parrot made of green cloth.
(c) A lock and key.
(d) A book.

3. What is the song Benare is singing when she returns from the bathroom about?
(a) A crow and a sparrow.
(b) A parrot and a sparrow.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A parrot and a crow.

4. Who does Rokde say has not arrived yet, in Act One?
(a) Ponkshe.
(b) Sukhatme.
(c) Kashikar.
(d) Damle.

5. What does Samant offer Benare in Act One?
(a) Pan.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) A book to read.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Benare say the mock trial that day will be about?

2. Who does Sukhatme say will play the fourth witness in Rawte's place?

3. What did Benare used to write on the first page of every book she had?

4. Why does Rokde say Rawte is missing, too, in Act One?

5. What does Mrs. Kashikar ask Rokde about in Act One?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the opening scene, Benare is flirting with Samant. Is Samant aware of this or not? Explain.

2. When Sukhatme teases Benare about her “husband,” what is her response and why?

3. Samant almost believes that the real President Johnson will be present for the mock trial. Explain what that demonstrates about his character.

4. Benare recites a poem she used to write on the first page of every book she had when she was a schoolgirl. Describe how the poem foreshadows what is later revealed in the play.

5. Mrs. Kashikar has a garland that her husband bought her but says she forgot to buy one for Benare. What does the garland symbolize?

6. Benare comes out of the bathroom singing a song about a parrot and a sparrow, which is the same song she sings at the end of the play. Explain the significance of the song.

7. Benare talks about what she was like as a child. Contrast her description of her childhood self to the way she is in the play.

8. In the opening scene, Benare and Samant hide and jump out to scare the other characters as the other characters enter, and Benare thinks it is funny that the others are scared. Explain how this contrasts the other characters’ teasing of her.

9. In the opening scene, Samant calls Benare a “schoolmarm,” but she appears to take offense at this because she corrects them. Explain why Benare would take offense to being called a “schoolmarm.”

10. When Benare says she forgot a book to read to pass the time before the show, Samant offers her the novel he has with him. Explain how this foreshadows what happens later in the play.

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