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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 Chance ask Princess to sign?

2. What kind of drug does Princess keep under the hotel mattress?

3. What is Scudder's position at the hospital?

4. Who does Princess phone in the second scene?

5. Who does Chance say he is not going to leave town without?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Princess react to what Sally tells her?

2. Why does Chance think he has every right to be in St. Cloud?

3. What does Princess say she sees outside her hotel window?

4. Why does Chance say Heavenly is important to him?

5. What information about Princess does Chance record?

6. Who is Sally Potter?

7. Why does Chance say he wants to borrow Princess' car?

8. How is Tom willing to help Princess?

9. Why is Heavenly angry at her father?

10. How does the bar react when Chance asks them to sing along to his song?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Pick two characters from the play and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1950s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes America was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1950s America?

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