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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 consequence of Joan's birth experience?

2. What does Angie lick?

3. Why is Jeanine changing jobs?

4. Why does Marlene want Jeanine to get a job?

5. What is wrong with Angie's dress in Act 2, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What genre might be used to describe the play during Act 1? Explain why.

2. What sort of parenting style does Joyce have? Is any of it effective on Angie?

3. How does Churchill portray women in dynamic and unlikely spiritual roles?

4. What is Marlene's reaction towards her visitors in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 2?

5. Based on what you know of Marlene's character from the play, do you think she would do things differently if she had the chance?

6. How is Marlene compared to her coworker Howard by the other women in the office?

7. Why might Churchill have shown Angie talking one moment about plans to kill her mother and plans to go to the movies the next moment?

8. How did Nell react to Shona's attempt to take control during their interview?

9. How is Joyce's husband similar to the other male characters mentioned in the play?

10. Why do you think the author includes a character like Isabella in the play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How could the scene between Angie and Kit in Act 2, Scene 3, Part 1 serves as a statement that the characters find femininity in general to be gross? Consider three examples in your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Are Churchill's choices in which characters are double-cast with each other intentional? Do the choices help define or confuse the two characters that are played by the same actor?

Essay Topic 3

Ultimately, what sort of achievements are more admirable to Churchill: achievements based on inner independence, strength and courage, or financial and power-based victories? Explain your response with examples and characters from the play.

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