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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. Why do the neighbors get into a discussion about labor unions, the working class, and America's prosperity?

2. What is Mr. Filippo Fiorentino carrying as he enters the scene?

3. Why does the group begin to break up?

4. When is Mr. Buchanan's wife due?

5. What are Mae Jones and Dick McGann doing as Rose passes them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Rose feel that no one should belong to anyone else?

2. How do the others explain Mr. Maurrant's mood?

3. What does Mr. Maurrant say to Rose?

4. What are Sam's thoughts on God?

5. What marriage advice does Lippo give to Rose?

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

7. What does Mrs. Jones say about raising children?

8. What does Rose say to cheer Sam up about the future?

9. What do the police allow Mr. Maurrant to do? Why might they allow this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam and Rose's relationships deepens as the play progresses.

Part 1) How?

Part 2) How do the neighbors respond to their relationship? Why?

Part 3) How does their separation from one another at the end of the play reflect their relationship at the beginning of the play?

Essay Topic 2

Shirley humiliates Rose.

Part 1) How does she humiliate Rose?

Part 2) Why does she do this? What does she fear?

Part 3) How do these two characters reconcile? Where else does reconciliation occur? What is the purpose of this reconciliation and forgiveness?

Essay Topic 3

Several characters in this play drink alcohol.

Part 1) Who are these characters?

Part 2) Why might they be drinking alcohol?

Part 3) What affect does this drinking play in their behavior and the decisions they make?

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