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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 one of Jerry's walls made from?

2. What happens soon after his father returns?

3. When did Jerry ask questions about the zoo?

4. How does Jerry get to the Village?

5. What does Jerry want to know about Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Peter say about his life? How does Jerry respond?

2. What does a dumbstruck Peter wonder about?

3. What happened to the person that Jerry then moved in with?

4. How does Peter end up on one side of the bench?

5. How is Jerry increasingly making Peter feel? Why?

6. What happened to Jerry's mother?

7. How does Jerry react when he tells Peter of his epiphany?

8. Describe the dog.

9. Who did Jerry live with after both of his parents were dead?

10. Why does Jerry say that he does not need to have a picture of a girl in two frames?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jerry invites Peter, and the audience, into his world.

Part 1) How does he do this?

Part 2) How does this reinforce the use of a minimal set?

Part 3) Why does the playwright use so much detail?

Essay Topic 2

Jerry runs away from danger whenever he encounters it - he runs from his landlady, he runs from the dog, etc. In doing so, what does this say about Jerry? Could he have responded in any other way? Why or why not? If Jerry wasn't always running away, how would his life be different? For example, if Jerry hadn't tried to kill the dog, but instead just tried to be friends with it, how would that have changed his relationship with the landlady? Would it have changed it at all?

Essay Topic 3

When Jerry talks about the long way that he took to get to the zoo, it seems like there would have been a better way. Why do you think that Jerry took this route instead? Why? Do you think this particular choice of Jerry's gives Peter another sign that he might not be right in the head? Why or why not?

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