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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 kind of officials are Slake and McAlvane?

2. What kind of car did Francis offer Joanne a ride in?

3. What does Joanne say is Francis's only positive trait?

4. What does Astrakhan claim is a sexual experience?

5. What is the name of Joseph's ex-wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the audience know the fifth scene takes place in the present?

2. Why is Joanne so wild in the fourth scene and more restrained in others?

3. What does the second scene say about Joseph and Joanne's relationship?

4. What does Astrakhan say about people's lives at the end of the fourth scene?

5. Why do computer manufacturers leave entrance ways open?

6. What does Joseph say about the true stuff Astrakhan has used in the documents?

7. How do Joseph and Joanne make up?

8. What does Astrakhan say he saw when he used Joseph's bathroom?

9. How does Joanne react when she meets Astrakhan for the first time?

10. What does Astrakhan say about memory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings:

1. Mexico.

2. USA.

3. Spain.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the construction of Kopit's argument.

1. How does he introduce his ideas?

2. How does he construct his ideas to come to logical conclusion?

3. What weaknesses and strengths can you identify in Kopit's argument?

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