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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. Which of the following is not a term that George uses to describe his son?

2. What department is Nick actually in?

3. Besides football, at what other sport is Nick adept?

4. Which actress starred in the film that Martha is trying to think of?

5. Which of the following is not a fictional locale to which George compares the university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nick's plan to gain control of the university?

2. What is the last game and how does George prepare for it?

3. What does George do at the end of Martha's boxing story?

4. Describe the chaos that occurs at the end of Act 1.

5. What causes Honey to throw up at the end of this scene?

6. What is George's explanation of the abstract painting in his house?

7. Describe Honey.

8. What arrangement do Martha and George come to at the end of their argument and how does the arrangement seem to suit them?

9. Describe the cloistered world that George and Martha have created at the beginning of the play.

10. Describe the movie that Martha references at the beginning of the play.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the three games that the are played over the course of the play. Who drives the game, and what is its objective:

Part 1) Humiliate the Host

Part 2) Get the Guests

Part 3) Bringing Up Baby

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about George's unpublished book. How has George taken a real event from his life, fictionalized it, and then recreated it in has life as a separate event? What does this say about him as a character?

Essay Topic 3

Write about the past life of Martha and George. Do you believe that they actually have one, or that any part of their stories is true. Write a paragraph about three specific stories told by George and Martha, dissecting what you know to be false and why:

Part 1) The boy that killed his parents

Part 2) George and Martha's boxing match

Part 3) Martha's "fiddling" of their son

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