QUIZ+REVIEW

QUIZ FORMAT:

I. VOCAB II. MULTIPLE CHOICE PLOT QUESTIONS BASED ON THE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS THAT WE DID IN CLASS III. SHORT ANSWER AND IRONY IV. WRITING - Choose one QUOTE (2-8 lines) FROM //THE VISIT// AND ANALYZE GRADED WITH 10 pt. paragraph rubric

Short Answer (be prepared to answer ONE of these with evidence)

Are these elements absurd? Why or Why not? Choose ONE element and explain. Claire, Ill, setting, "sedan car", emer. brake, trees as men and men as trees, the policeman and "the pair", justice.

If Ill is willing to submit to the decision made by the town, why does he refuse to kill himself?

Does Claire's lifestyle make her happy?

Why do the townspeople always identify their values as "Western?"

How is the name Guellen significant?

IRONY:

Label the following quotes or situations as //verbal// irony with or //dramatic// irony and write a brief explanation 20 – 40 words each

5 points – correctly labeled 5 points - explaination

“Would you like to meet my seventh husband, Alfred? Tobacco Plantations. We’re very happily married.” Claire, Act I

“Yes, I brought a coffin with me. I may need it. Roby, Toby, off we go!” Claire, Act I

Act II – in a bar: “MAN ONE: ‘Mornin’ It’ll be a hot day. MAN TWO: Very fine and warm for the time of year. ILL: Extraordinary custom this morning. Not a soul for as long as you like and then suddenly these past few days they’re flocking in.”

“You are your own Hell. You are older than I am, and you think you know people, but in the end one only knows oneself. Because you once betrayed a young girl for money, many years ago, do you believe the people will betray you now for money? You impute your own nature to others….” Priest, Act II

“But you must see how fond we are of you…The whole town’s brought you to the station. The whole town! The whole town!” Schoolmaster, Mayor, and ALL, Act II

“One endowment, and every inhabitant of this little town has suddenly become a well-to-do citizen. It must constitute one of the greatest social experiments of the age. The public here are gasping for breath, there’s a deathly silence. O, they’re awestruck…” Radio Commentator, Act III

Schoolmaster: O people of Guellen! Such is the bitter truth! We have connived at injustice! I am of course fully aware of the material possibilities inherent for all of us in a million. Nor am I blind to the fact that poverty is the root of much evil, nay, of great hardship. And yet, and yet: we are not moved by the money (huge applause): we are not moved by ambitious thoughts of prosperity and good living, and luxury: we are moved by this matter of justice and the problem of how to apply it." p. 91

"First Reporter: What's going on here? (The knot of men opens, loosed. The men assemble quietly in background. Only Doctor remains, kneeling beside a corpse over which is spread, as if in a hotel, a chequered table-cloth. Doctor stands, puts away stethoscope.) Doctor: Heart attack. (Silence.) Mayor: Died of joy. First Reporter: Died of joy. Second Reporter: Life writes the most beautiful stories." p. 97