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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 does Will ask Pete for?

2. What does Clara say about Pete and Carson?

3. Where does Carson say he saw Bill's roommate the previous day?

4. Where does Lily Dale go at the end of the scene?

5. When does the man at the bank suggest Will return?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Clara find out for Lily Dale about the Disappointment Clubs?

2. What does Will call Tom about?

3. What does Lily Dale initially confess to doing with Mary Cunningham?

4. Why does Will refuse to go outside and speak to the young man from Atlanta?

5. What is Will's manner with Etta Doris?

6. After recounting his meeting at the bank, Will lies down on the sofa and closes his eyes. How is he interrupted?

7. What all does Etta Doris say is wrong with her?

8. Why does Lily Dale no longer see Mary Cunningham?

9. What does Will say to Carson and Pete about the way he has been treating his wife?

10. How does the young man from Atlanta get Lily Dale to talk to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Carson's function in THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA? What does he represent for Pete? What does he represent for Lily Dale and Will? How does Foote use him to advance the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Will begins the play as a wealthy and professionally successful man. He ends the play quite differently. Write an essay illuminating the nature of Will's transformation. How do the external changes in Will's life shape him on the inside?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Will Kidder with another tragic character you have encountered in drama or literature (Willy Loman, for example). Compare and contrast the qualities of the these characters. How is Will's tragic fall classic. In what ways is it totally unique?

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