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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the Man doing when the Woman asks him to join her in the eighth scene?
2. What chore is the Woman doing at the beginning of the fifth scene?
3. What does the Woman say she dreamed about?
4. What does the Woman want the Man to do with the sword when she is scared in Scene 8?
5. What does the Woman say she tried to fill the silence with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Man and the Woman start as strangers, but their relationship evolves into something much different. Respond to the following using examples from the play to support your answer:
1) How does the relationship of the Man and the Woman change from when they first meet to the middle of the play? How does the relationship change from the middle of the play to the end of the story?
2) What influences the change in the relationship between the characters? Do they both long for the same thing? Do they both fear the same thing?
3) How does the relationship between the Man and the Woman affect the Man after the Woman's death?
Essay Topic 2
The fear that the Man and the Woman have has great impact on the way the two characters respond to each other. Answer the following with supporting examples from the play:
1) Why does the Man fear the Woman? What qualities about the Woman intensify his fear?
2) Does the Woman fear the Man as much as the Man fears the Woman? Why?
3) What do both the Woman and the Man fear? Does this concern bring them closer together, farther apart, or both? How?
Essay Topic 3
The play has only two characters, the Man and the Woman. Each of these characters represents good and bad things to one another. Using supporting examples, respond to the following:
1) Is there a clearly defined protagonist or antagonist in "The Sound of a Voice"? Why or why not?
2) What substitutes for the protagonist and antagonist in the play?
3) What is the author's purpose in writing the plot without an obviously laid out hero and villain?
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