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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 Jerry further explain that there is no need to have?

2. How is Peter at this moment?

3. What is the person living next to Jerry always doing?

4. What does Peter's company work on?

5. Who does Peter consider to be the finer writer when Jerry gives him a choice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What monologue does Jerry go into?

2. What does Jerry tell Peter about his communication with people?

3. Whose dog is the one that Jerry wants to kill?

4. What does Jerry wonder about his trip to the park?

5. What does Jerry provoke as he wonders why Peter wants the bench so much?

6. What does Jerry inform Peter he doesn't like to do?

7. How does the landlady react to Jerry's attempt on the dog's life?

8. What does Jerry realize in this part of the play as he is talking to Peter?

9. What is Peter doing when Jerry approaches him in the park?

10. What was Jerry's route to the park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The background of Jerry is a sad one, filled with death and sadness. However, with Jerry's state of mind as it's seen in the play, do you think he's making up these stories? Why or why not? If he was making up the stories, what purpose does this serve for him? Can the reader and Peter trust anything he says?

Essay Topic 2

The playwright purposely has Jerry befriend a dog.

Part 1) Why does the playwright do this?

Part 2) To what will this friendship lead? Why does Jerry believe this?

Part 3) What does the playwright believe will happen to someone without love? Why might he believe this?

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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