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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 Austin using to write his story?

2. What did Lee and Austin used to catch in the desert?

3. Why was he passing through the desert?

4. What is Lee carrying when he enters?

5. Where has Lee been spending most of his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lee hate calling the operator?

2. How have the two brothers reversed their roles in the beginning of the scene?

3. How does Lee wish he had grown up?

4. Why does Saul feel Austin is the right person to write Lee's screenplay?

5. Does Austin earn Lee's respect by stealing the toasters?

6. At the beginning of the play, which brother appears to have his life in order?

7. Give a brief description of Lee's characters' chase scene.

8. Does Mom think Austin is cut out for the desert?

9. Why does Austin demand his keys back from Lee?

10. Does Lee think Austin would be any good at his former profession? Why/why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The brothers each admire a quality in each other--for Lee, he admires Austin's smarts and Ivy League education, and Austin admires Lee's adventurousness. How do these identifications contribute to their role reversals? Do the brothers really wish they were like the other? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the last sound effect of the play, a single coyote in the distance? Of whom or what is it representative?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Austin keep choking Lee, though it is clear at some point that he is really hurting him? As the younger brother, how is he asserting his authority? Why has Lee upset him so much?

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