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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Elements of Style," Parks incorporates diagrams illustrating how some of her works function as what?
(a) Postmodernist identities.
(b) Grammatical symbols.
(c) Methodical melodramas.
(d) Mathematical equations.

2. Who writes a letter to Mr. Sergeant Smith in scene "D" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?
(a) Buffy.
(b) Mrs. Smith.
(c) Muffy.
(d) Duffy.

3. Who worries that her father doesn't like her in scene "D" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?
(a) Buffy.
(b) Mrs. Smith.
(c) Muffy.
(d) Duffy.

4. In scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander," Lucius tells Mare that his favorite horse is always what?
(a) Sleeping late.
(b) Drooling.
(c) Eager to race.
(d) Vocalizing.

5. In scene "B" of "Open House," Aretha speaks of God looking down on whom?
(a) Miss Faith and Charles.
(b) Blanca.
(c) Her and Charles.
(d) Anglor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her opening essays, what does Parks define as "the holding or having of something of one's own"?

2. What is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression or presented in a spiritual or performance setting?

3. Who is speaking in scene "D" of "Snails"?

4. What refers to the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events?

5. What refers to a hypersensitivity to a substance that causes the body to react to any contact with that substance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What imagery and sounds are depicted in the opening of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?

2. What imagery opens the play "Open House"? What characters are present?

3. What stylistic techniques does Parks describe using in her works in "Elements of Style"?

4. Who are the characters and what do they reveal in the play "Third Kingdom"?

5. What apparatus does the Naturalist describe in scene "B" of "Snails"?

6. How does the theme of assimilation manifest in "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?

7. What does the cockroach represent in "Snails"?

8. What image does Mr. Sergeant Smith project in scene "A" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?

9. In what ways does Parks leave metaphorical interpretation to the audience in "Snails"?

10. What objectives do Mrs. Smith and Buffy reveal in scene "B" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?

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