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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 Timmy offer to do after Nettie throws the roses?

2. What does John contend about Timmy to Nettie?

3. What does John pretend he is doing as he hears someone coming in the beginning of the play?

4. What does Timmy do when he returns at the end of the third scene?

5. What does Nettie say after seeing the flowers in Act 1, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Timmy conclude at the end of Act 2, Scene 3, and what does it represent for his character?

2. What happens between Timmy and John that changes the way they look at each other in Act 2, Scene 4?

3. What reason does John give Timmy for why he should stay?

4. What happens between Nettie and Timmy in Scene 1 that symbolizes their relationship at this point in the play?

5. What reason does Nettie give for her symbolic act in the third scene?

6. Why does John think that he and Nettie's marriage will improve, and how does Nettie comment on his theory?

7. What do Timmy and John do when Nettie enters the room in the fourth scene of Act 2, and how does she respond?

8. What does Timmy tell John that he argued with Nettie about and why?

9. What is Timmy's request at breakfast in the first scene of Act 2, how does John respond, and what does it indicate?

10. How do Timmy and John's actions when Nettie enters the apartment in Act 1, Scene 2 illustrate her place in the family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Nettie's disappearance signify? Where might she have gone? Analyze what the character was attempting to accomplish, why she felt her actions were necessary, and whether or not she succeeded in getting the results she hoped for.

Essay Topic 2

In Act 2, Scene 3, Nettie is reflecting back on her life to understand her present situation.

1) Describe Nettie's life before she met John. How were both of their lives different? Were they similar in any ways?

2) Explain the significance of the job that Nettie was scheduled to go to before she met John, the events that led to her resigning from it, and how that experience ended up changing her life. Also, include what you think Nettie's life would have been like if she had taken the job and why.

Essay Topic 3

John admires Timmy's participation in the war and it is also a source of his own self-doubt.

1) Describe the conversations and events in the play that depict how John feels about Timmy's time in the war.

2) Explain how Timmy's experience in the war causes John to think about himself and his own experiences. Also, include what Timmy does to help his father come to terms with his doubt.

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