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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. About what does Jerry wonder why Peter did not ask?

2. What does Peter claim about his life?

3. How does the person hearing the phrase in #80 respond?

4. When Peter says that he can't express himself too well, he says that he's in publishing, not in __________.

5. How does Jerry 'know' Peter's answer to the question about having more kids?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the result of the process that Jerry concocts?

2. What is Jerry's explanation for how he has arrived at the park?

3. Why did Jerry go to the zoo in the first place?

4. What happened to Jerry's mother eventually?

5. How does Peter respond after Jerry tells him he planned on killing the dog? Why does Peter respond this way?

6. What does Peter wonder about the picture frames? What is Jerry's response?

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

8. What is Jerry's epiphany?

9. Where does Peter incorrectly assume that Jerry lives?

10. What does Jerry list? Why does he make this list?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jerry dies from running into Peter when he was holding the knife. Do you think Jerry did this on purpose? Why or why not? Why does Jerry tell Peter to run away after he cleans the fingerprints off the knife? Why does Peter decide to run away instead of staying to help Jerry?

Essay Topic 3

If Peter is so frustrated by the end of the play that he blows up in anger, why do you think he feels this way? Is his anger directed solely at Jerry, or is it also directed at himself? Why or why not? Why does Peter have such a hard time understanding what Jerry has told him? If you were in Peter's shoes, would you have felt the same way? Why or why not?

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