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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 is happening at the same time Alice and Tony are making declarations to one another?

2. Why is Mr. Henderson at the house?

3. What occurs in the basement?

4. Why might Tony like Alice's family?

5. What does Alice agree to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Grandpa persuade Alice to do? How is he able to do this?

2. What happens before Tony and Alice part? What does this show about their relationship?

3. How does Tony disagree with Alice? Why is he able to accept her family?

4. How is Tony beginning to act more like the Sycamore family? Why?

5. What have Paul Sycamore and Mr. DePinna been doing? Why is this odd?

6. How does the second act open? What new character does the audience meet? How does she add to the comedic aspect of the play?

7. About what is "You Can't Take It With You?"

8. What does Rheba recall? How does this information satisfy the audience?

9. What does Penny comment about Alice? Why? Why might Alice be attracted to this type of man?

10. What do these strangers uncover? To what does this lead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alice and Tony meet at work.

Part 1) What is Tony's job? What is Alice's job? How does this make them compatible?

Part 2) Ironically, how does Alice's career make her odd, compared to the rest of her family?

Part 3) What draws Tony to Alice's family and vice versa? What are they lacking in their own lives that makes them fond of each other's families?

Essay Topic 2

The entire family is arrested.

Part 1) Why? What takes place during their jail time?

Part 2) How does this arrest affect Alice? Does this arrest prove that Alice was right to believe her family could not be accepted in Tony's world? Why or why not?

Part 3) Will the Sycamores and Kirbys be able to move past this incident and become one cohesive family? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Ed is followed by a strange man.

Part 1) Who is this man? Why is he following Ed?

Part 2) How could audience members at the time this play is written relate to this?

Part 3) What role does this man play in the chaos and humiliation of the Kirbys towards the end of the play?

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