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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 color is the shirt that the Kittredges give to Paul?

2. Where do the prospective buyers for Flan's Cezanne live?

3. How long is the hall in the Kittredge house?

4. What request does Paul make of the Kittredges before leaving?

5. What percentage commission does Ouisa theorize Flan is giving Paul?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Kittredges doing the night that Paul finally calls them?

2. What does Sidney Poitier say to Ouisa in her dream?

3. What is the essence of Paul's thesis?

4. Describe the dish that Paul prepares.

5. What new information does the Detective have when he calls Ouisa and Flan?

6. How does Kitty, Larkin, and the Kittredge's meeting with their children go in this section?

7. How does Paul explain the naked man to Flan and Ouisa?

8. How do the two sets of parents in this section try to track down Sidney Poitier?

9. Why does Flan give Paul fifty dollars after Geoffrey leaves?

10. What does Ouisa discover when she wakes Paul in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ouisa Kittredge emerges as the protagonist of the play by the end. Write an essay analyzing the plot of Guare's play as a personal journey for Ouisa. What does she discover in her evening with Paul? Why is she so driven to find out his origins and where he is, and how does this drive bring her to promise extravagant things to him over the phone? What is Ouisa's state of mind at the end of the play?

Essay Topic 2

The end of the play is ambiguous in wrapping up many of its plot lines. Write an essay about the final moments of the play, focusing on the fate of Paul. How do the Kittredges fail to find him in the Village, and how does he become lost in the criminal justice system? What does this say about his place in the world and the place of those like him?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about parent-child relationships in Guare's play. What is the recurring motif regarding the parents who are duped in the play and their children? How do these relationships play out onstage? How do these parents regard their children, and how does Paul represent a sort of idealized form of their children?

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