Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.(But she swallows over getting the ring on her finger, and cannot continue until she finds a woebegone joke.)Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: So. You are no longer our pupil, we throw you into the world, a teacher. If the child can be taught. No one expects you to work miracles, even for twenty five dollars a month. Now, in this envelope a loan, for the railroad, which you will repay me when you have a bank account. But in this box, a gift. With our love.(ANNIE opens the small box he extends, and sees a garnet ring. She looks up, blinking, and down.)Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE: Which half? . . . This place gave me more than my eyes back. Or taught me how to spell, which I’ll never learn anyway, but with all the fights and the trouble I’ve been here it taught me what help is, and how to live again, and I don’t want to say goodbye. Don’t open the door, I’m crying.ANAGNOS [GENTLY]: They will not see.Which word best describes Annie in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.(The lights begin to come up, down left, on a long table and chair. The table contains equipment for teaching the blind by touch – a small replica of the human skeleton, stuffed animals, models of flowers and plants, piles of books.)Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANNIE [MEEKLY]: Yes. But I know what I’m like, what’s this child like?ANAGNOS: Like?ANNIE: Well – Bright or dull, to start off.ANAGNOS: No one knows. And if she is dull, you have no patience with this?ANNIE: Oh, in grownups you have to, Mr. Anagnos, I mean in children it just seems a little – precocious, can I use that word?ANAGNOS: Only if you can spell it.ANNIE: Premature. So I hope at least she’s a bright one.Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: . . . It will no doubt be difficult for you there, Annie. But it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? Gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an Irish battle. For independence.Which element of drama does the author use in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.(As soon as they locate her voice they throng joyfully to her, speaking all at once; ANNIE is down on her knees to the smallest, and the following are the more intelligible fragments in the general hubbub.)CHILDREN: There’s a present. We brought you a going-away present, Annie!ANNIE: Oh, now you shouldn’t have –CHILDREN: We did, we did, where’s the present?SMALLEST CHILD [MOURNFULLY]: Don’t go, Annie, away.Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: . . . It will no doubt be difficult for you there, Annie. But it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? Gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an Irish battle. For independence.(He studies ANNIE, humorously; she does not open her eyes.)This is my last time to counsel you, Annie, and you do lack some – by some I mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. To others. And what had saved you on more than one occasion here at Perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. Your eyes hurt?ANNIE: My ears, Mr. Anagnos.(And now she has opened her eyes; they are inflamed. Vague, slightly crossed, clouded by the granular growth of trachoma, and she often keeps them closed to shut out the pain of light.)ANAGNOS [SEVERELY]: Nowhere but back to Tewksbury, where children learn to be saucy. Annie, I know how dreadful it was there, but that battle is dead and done with, why not let it stay buried?Which of these statements provides the best summary of the scene?
Read this excerpt from a play.Hailey (entering from the side door and depositing a full backpack on the table): Hi, Mom! I’ve got a ton of homework tonight.Mrs. Renault (stepping forward and offering a letter for inspection): Oh, yeah? Well, a letter came for you today. It says it’s from the Encore Summer Institute.Hailey (taking the letter and opening it): I’ve been waiting for this (reading the letter, eyes growing wider). Oh, Mom, I got in. Unbelievable. I can’t, I mean, this is amazing.Mrs. Renault (shaking her head and clutching her hands, jaw dropping): Read it out loud. . . .Which line from the play contains dialogue that reveals emotion?
Read this excerpt from The Miracle Worker.ANAGNOS: . . . It will no doubt be difficult for you there, Annie. But it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? Gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an Irish battle. For independence.(He studies ANNIE, humorously; she does not open her eyes.)This is my last time to counsel you, Annie, and you do lack some – by some I mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. To others. And what had saved you on more than one occasion here at Perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to.What do Anagnos’s words reveal about Annie in this excerpt?
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