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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 one of the items Jo finds in her boyfriend's pocket?

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

3. What is the title of one of the movies Helen sees in the paper?

4. How is the apartment lit?

5. Since the move, what is the difference in travel time for Jo's trip to school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jo think of her relationship with Geof? What role has he filled in her life?

2. According to Jo, why does she decide to sleep with her boyfriend?

3. Why has Peter Smith followed Helen to the new apartment?

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

5. Does Jo think Geof has been a good influence on her?

6. Where is the bathroom in the new apartment?

7. Why does Geof offer to marry Jo?

8. Why has Jo decided to let Geof stay, though they are not in a love relationship?

9. Why has Helen returned to the apartment?

10. Why has Geof told Helen about the baby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though Helen has abandoned Jo again at the end of the play, perhaps never to return, Jo is comforted by Geof's nursery rhyme. How can she remain calm, though in labor and completely alone? What has Jo learned about love in the play from Geof? From Helen? From Peter? Do you think Jo is ready for her biracial baby in 1950s England?

Essay Topic 2

There are many symbols in the play. How does Delaney use symbolism to tell her story? Choose three symbols from the text. Examine how they are applied and what they mean to the play.

Essay Topic 3

Peter is arguably the least-developed character in the play. While the others have complex emotional paths, Peter is very clearly a womanizer and a drunk. Why do you think Delaney included this two-dimensional character with her other well-rounded and developed characters? Do you think Peter is meant to be underdeveloped?

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