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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Paul describe the imagination in this section?
2. What does Tess suggest her mother should have done with Paul?
3. At which movie theater does Ouisa say she will meet Paul to take him to the police?
4. According to Kitty what famous starlet used the alias Harriet Brown at hotels?
5. What type of law does Kitty's "friend" practice?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the reasons that everyone in the play takes to Paul so quickly is his contention that he is Sidney Poitier's son. Write an essay about the reaction the various marks have to the thought of Poitier. What does he represent to the Kittredges? Geoffrey? Dr. Fine? Why are they so put at-ease by the thought of him?
Essay Topic 2
The story of Six Degrees of Separation is related to the audience int he manner of a cocktail party anecdote. Write an essay on the role of the anecdote throughout the play:
Part 1) How is the story of the Kittredges' night with Geoffrey the central anecdote of the play? To what extent does the rest of the play stem from Ouisa and Flan's attempt to fully explain this anecdote?
Part 2) The story of Rick's suicide is the one major anecdote of the play not related by the Kittredges. How do Kitty and Larkin frame the story of this most harrowing of plot points? In what way does the anecdote intentionally fall flat at the end?
Part 3) What is Ouisa's complaint about the anecdote at the end of the play? How has she reached a point in her life where the anecdote is a sickening item to her? To what extent does she reject the frame of the play at the end?
Essay Topic 3
The Kandinsky in the Kittredge condo is the central symbolic image of the play. Write an essay about the significance of this image. What theme do its opposite sides symbolize? How does the opposing control and wildness of the painting manifest itself in the action onstage? How do you interpret Paul's cryptic final words?
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