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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Geof still have to do for the evening?

2. Why does Geof leave when Helen arrives?

3. For the first time in her life, how does Jo feel?

4. What classical Greek figure is in the joke Peter tells Geof?

5. Who does Helen encourage Jo to locate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though Geof is a homosexual, he loves Jo and ultimately does what he feels is best for her. What does Helen feel is best for Jo? Who knows Jo better, Geof or Helen? Do you think Jo would be in better hands with one character or the other? Would they be able to share Jo, or would that destroy everything?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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