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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which country does George warn against when he returns to the room?
2. To what animal does George compare Martha when he calls her lovely?
3. When, according to George,did he receive the fateful telegram?
4. What language does George begin speaking partway through Martha's description of their son?
5. How do George and Martha agree to describe the final passage of the night?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The collapse of inhibitions - mostly, but not exclusively, as a result of drink - is a key driver of action in the play. Write an essay about the disappearance of inhibitions as time goes on:
Part 1) Examine the character of Honey. How is the entirety of her character arc a breaking down of inhibitions leading to her final admission in Act 3.
Part 2) How does the relationship between Nick and Martha change over the course of the play as a result of the breaking down of inhibitions?
Part 3) How is George's revelation about his child the ultimate collapse of his and Martha's inhibitions?
Essay Topic 2
Choose one of the following to write an essay:
1.) How is the university system portrayed in the play? Is it portrayed as high-minded in any way? What kind of skills are required to be successful in the university? Use George and Nick's conversations as corroboration.
2.) Discuss the role of professor's lives in the larger setting of the play. In what ways ere they integral to both the political and social landscape of the college. How do Honey and Martha represent two important functions of university wives?
3.) Compare and contract Nick and George's attitudes toward the university. What will Nick do for advancement that George will not?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about George and Martha's fictitious son, detailing how you believe they have used him as a weapon. Frame your essay by discussing three specific stories about him from the text. Be sure to mention who told the story, and whether the other contradicted it.
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