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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. When Mr. Antrobus tells Mrs. Antrobus that a sign is a storm signal of rain, what does Mrs. Antrobus go to find?

2. Gladys does not want her mom to go get things because she is what?

3. What is the name of Mrs. Antrobus' other son?

4. What food does Sabina make to feed the refugees?

5. Who asked the refugees to come to the Antrobus' house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sabina not want to go borrow some fire?

2. How does Mrs. Antrobus describe a woman's quest for marriage?

3. What does Sabina explain about the people running the movies?

4. Why does Mr. Antrobus vow to continue fighting Henry?

5. What are the clear parallels between the story the Fortune Tellers tells and the Biblical story of Noah's Ark?

6. What do the lines of the philosophers, played by the stand-ins, concern?

7. When Gladys and Mrs. Antrobus emerge from the trap door, what does Mrs. Antrobus comment on as being different?

8. Describe the set in the beginning of Act 3.

9. Mr. Antrobus tells Henry that war is a pleasure compared to what?

10. Why does Mr. Antrobus yell for the fires to be put out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three types of irony and how does the play use them? Cite examples from the play in support of your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Using specific evidence from the play, answer the following question: Why is the war never named?

Essay Topic 3

How does the Antrobus family represent the archetypal human beings? Cite specific examples from the play in support of your answer.

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