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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. Who have Lee and Austin recently been to see?

2. What is the villain of Lee's story pulling behind his truck?

3. What is the first sound effect present in the stage directions?

4. What is Lee concerned about breaking?

5. How long has it been since Lee and Austin have seen each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Saul feel threatened by Lee?

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

3. What roles did the brothers used to take as children?

4. Why does Austin claim he could not live in the desert like Lee?

5. How do Saul and Lee try to lure Austin to the project?

6. Why has Lee chosen to live in the desert?

7. Why is Lee offended when Austin offers him money?

8. What does Austin use as a reference when Lee asks him the time?

9. How does Saul feel initially about Austin's screenplay?

10. Why did Saul give Lee his gold clubs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do a character study of Lee. Examine his journey in depth throughout the text of the play. Pay special attention to turning points and instances where he must make decisions.

Essay Topic 2

Lee's speech has a markedly "country" dialect, a sharp contrast with Austin's clipped style of speech in the beginning. Take a look back through the dialogue and pinpoint the instance where Austin begins to speak like his brother, with a slight twang. What are the implications of this change?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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