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Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Short Answer Questions

1. What is Felix's last name?

2. How is Roy's personality best described?

3. What are the poker players worried about in the first scene?

4. What is Oscar's last name?

5. How does Felix feel about his wife at the beginning of the play?

Short Essay Questions


2. Why do Oscar and his friends watch Felix very closely when he first arrives?

3. What happens to Felix's dinner, and why?

4. After Felix and Oscar argue in the second act, what does Oscar offer as a solution to help Felix?

5. Describe the friends with whom Oscar plays poker.

6. Why does Oscar offer to let Felix move in?

7. Why does Felix refuse to go the Pigeon sister's apartment, and how does Oscar react?


9. Why does Felix bring the Pigeon sisters to Oscar's apartment at the end of the play?

10. How do the other poker players respond to the news that Oscar has thrown Felix out, and why?

Essay Topics

Essay Topic 1

Explain in detail why it is important to study a performance of a play in addition to reading it in class.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how both Felix and Oscar change as characters throughout the play.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the marriages and divorces of Oscar and Felix, and analyze what these events reveal about them as characters.

(see the answer keys)

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