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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 is suspected of being the gem thief?

2. In the game lamming, what did people put on themselves?

3. What type of gem is stolen in "The Stolen Gem"?

4. Why has Blanch DuBois escaped her play?

5. What is the primary focus of the critic as he goes through O'Shawn's poem line by line?

Short Essay Questions

1. What importance does the critic put on the names mentioned in O'Shawn's poem and what does the critic try to do each time he sees a name?

2. What idea does Trichinosis bring to the play?

3. What is the story of the origins of the phrase "get into beef"?

4. How does the essay "But Soft...Real Soft" begin and what are some arguments regarding Shakespeare that it mentions?

5. What are Diabetes and Hepatitis discussing and arguing about at the beginning of "God (A Play)"?

6. What is Three Deuces and who are some people that frequent it?

7. What are some of the strange interpretations the critic pulls from O'Shawn's work?

8. What is Vincent Van Gogh's profession in this story and how does he feel about it?

9. What is Weinstein's character like and what are some of his recollections?

10. How was Clifford Wheel killed? How was the killer discovered?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Please analyze the killer from "Death (A Play)." What does the author tell reader directly about the killer? What does the reader infer about the killer from his actions, speech, and interactions with Kleinman? In the end, what does the killer represent?

Essay Topic 2

What role does a narrator play in a story or novel? Please define at least three different types of narrators and give examples from the book for at least two different types of narrators. As a reader, which type of narrator do you prefer?

Essay Topic 3

Please define parody as a literary category. What are three examples of parody found in "Without Feathers" and what are they parodying?

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