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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 is the title of one of the movies Helen sees in the paper?

2. How does Jo make Helen's coffee?

3. How does Jo burn herself?

4. To what does Helen compare their bed?

5. What does Jo admit is her favorite season of the year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Jo comforted last Christmas during Helen's absence?

2. Why does Jo attack Peter, half-laughing, half-crying?

3. Does Geof think Helen was telling the truth when she told Jo her father was mentally challenged?

4. What are Helen's thoughts on destiny, as she tells Jo after their conversation about the shiek?

5. Why has Geof told Helen about the baby?

6. From where are Jo's boyfriend's ancestors? Does Jo find this attractive?

7. Does Jo think she loved her boyfriend?

8. Rather than Helen, who does Jo think of at the very end of the play that gives her comfort?

9. Why has Helen returned to the apartment?

10. Why is Jo unworried about her longer walk to school from the new apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helen first husband is described by her as a Puritan, and she had not been with a man until she sought out Jo's father in the barn. How do you think Helen's conservative husband shaped her later life? Why did she sleep with someone else, and someone who was considered mentally deficient to boot? Do you think this was the beginning of Helen's life as a social butterfly?

Essay Topic 2

In Act 1, Scene 1, Jo dreams about Helen's death. How does Helen's reaction to Jo's dream give insight to her character? Is Helen really as flippant and unfeeling as she first appears? How, if at all, does Helen change throughout the play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the play's title. What are the implications of a taste of honey, as an action and a title for the play? Where are there instances in the text that demonstrate the idea? How do the characters exemplify the idea?

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