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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 does Emma Jones call Greta?

2. Where would Mrs. Maurrant like to go that evening, but her daughter has not come home yet?

3. What do the women gossip about, regarding Mrs. Maurrant?

4. Where does this play begin?

5. Why does Shirley Kaplan ask her father to turn his reading lamp off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rose ask the group? How do they respond?

2. What does Mr. Easter ask a police officer? What is the reply?

3. What does Mrs. Maurrant have in her hands as she enters the scene? Why does she have this?

4. What does Willie want from his mother? Why does his mother give in?

5. What will happen to Rose and Willie?

6. Why are the women so interested in Mr. Buchanan?

7. What do the women do after they invite Mrs. Maurrant to visit?

8. What does Rose suggest her mother do about Mr. Sankey? Why does Rose suggest this?

9. How does this scene show that Mr. Buchanan is a good husband?

10. How does Shirley hurt Rose? How does she apologize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Maurrant is an angry, miserable character.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How does his behavior affect his relationships with others?

Part 3) Compare and contrast his behavior throughout the play to his behavior at the end of the play.

Essay Topic 2

Mr. Maurrant shoots and kills both his wife and Mr. Sankey.

Part 1) Why does he murder them?

Part 2) What clues earlier in the play foreshadowed this action?

Part 3) How do various neighbors react to this event? Why do they react this way?

Essay Topic 3

Newspaper and tabloids are carried and discussed.

Part 1) What is the purpose of this media?

Part 2) How does it stir up the community?

Part 3) How does the media today serve a similar purpose as the media then?

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