Which piece of dialogue from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy most reveals Madam Potiphar’s motives for wanting her husband to replace his secretary, Joseph?
In The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy , the garden outside the Potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the
Read the following scene from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy . THE LADY: Such a lovely house, Madam Potiphar!—But what is this quiet room? Your husband's study? MADAM POTIPHAR: ( coming in ) Oh, this is nothing—merely the room of one of the slaves. Come, dear Cousin Asenath, and I will show you the garden. The pomegranates are just beginning to blossom. ASENATH: The room of a slave? Indeed! He seems to be an educated person! How would a stage interpretation differ from an audio production of this scene?
Which excerpt from Trifles contains a stage direction?
Read the excerpt. Mrs. Carter often explained to visitors how fortunate she had been to find the Wilkes family. They had stayed on her land longer than anyone before them, nearly five years now, and she considered that a rare blessing. Before their arrival, families came and went with each passing season, never settling long enough to be dependable. Since her husband had left years ago, Mrs. Carter depended on someone to help her walk the property lines and check the distant fences. When her daughter, Ellen, was asked to help instead, she would trudge along reluctantly, her expression sour and her replies clipped. “If you don’t want my help, just say so,” she would mutter. Mrs. Carter would sigh and wish, not for the first time, that someone else could share the burden of such a large and lonely stretch of land. Based on the excerpt, what inferences can be made about the story’s setting?
Read the following scene from The Little Foxes . BEN: ( very jovial ) I suppose I have been. And why not? Horace has done Hubbard Sons many a good turn. Why shouldn’t I be anxious to help him now? REGINA: ( laughs ) Help him! Help him when you need him, that’s what you mean. BEN: What a woman you married, Horace. ( Laughs awkwardly when HORACE does not answer ) Well, then I’ll make it quick. You know what I’ve been telling you for years. How I’ve always said that every one of us little Southern businessmen had great things—( Extends his arm )—right beyond our finger tips. It’s been my dream: my dream to make those fingers grow longer: I’m a lucky man, Horace, a lucky man. To dream and to live to get what you’ve dreamed of. That’s my idea of a lucky man. ( Looks at his fingers as his arm drops slowly ) For thirty years I’ve cried bring the cotton mills to the cotton. (HORACE opens medicine bottle ). Well, finally I got up nerve to go to Marshall Company in Chicago. What would be similar about a stage and a film interpretation of this scene?
Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes . REGINA: ( to BEN, triumphantly ) Exactly. ( To HORACE) So I did a little bargaining for you and convinced my brothers they weren’t the only Hubbards who had a business sense. HORACE: Did you have to convince them of that? How little people know about each other! ( Laughs ) But you’ll know better about Regina next time, eh, Ben? (BEN, REGINA, HORACE laugh together. OSCAR’S face is angry ) Now let’s see. We’re getting a bigger share. ( Looking at OSCAR) Who’s getting less? Which of the following themes does this reinforce?
Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes . REGINA: ( to BEN) Horace would like to talk to you now. HORACE: Horace would not like to talk to you now. I am very tired, Regina— REGINA: ( comes to him ) Please. You’ve said we’ll try our best with each other. I’ll try. Really, I will. Please do this for me now. You will see what I’ve done while you’ve been away. How I watched your interests. ( Laughs gaily ) And I’ve done very well too. But things can’t be delayed any longer. Everything must be settled this week— (HORACE sits down. BEN enters. OSCAR has stayed in the dining room, his head turned to watch them. LEO is pretending to read the newspaper ) Now you must tell Horace all about it. Only be quick because he is very tired and must go to bed. (HORACE is looking up at her. His face hardens as she speaks ) But I think your news will be better for him than all the medicine in the world. BEN: ( looking at HORACE) It could wait. Horace may not feel like talking today. REGINA: What an old faker you are! You know it can’t wait. You know it must be finished this week. You’ve been just as anxious for Horace to get here as I’ve been. What does this excerpt emphasize about the character of Regina?
In Glaspell’s The Inheritors , which quotation best supports the feminist theme that women often feel a desire to control their own fate?
Read the excerpt from The Inheritors . EMIL: Guess you don't know much about the Espionage Act or you'd go and make a little friendly call on your uncle. When your case comes to trial—and Judge Lenon may be on the bench—( whistles ) He's one fiend for Americanism. What best describes the effect of the word fiend in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Trifles . SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. ( The County Attorney, after again looking around the kitchen, opens the door of a cupboard closet. He gets up on a chair and looks on a shelf. Pulls his hand away, sticky .) COUNTY ATTORNEY: Here’s a nice mess. (The women draw nearer .) How would an audio recording of this excerpt help establish the setting of the play?
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Fifth, they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic advancement and social security; This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them; Which approach best describes the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . Thrown off balance, struggling to keep from falling into the abyss below, I plummeted out of reach. Rolling down the steep incline, I grabbed at tree branches to break my fall as they ripped the mittens from my hands. Biting my tongue, I splashed into a stream with no cushion but ice-covered boulders. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Which best describes the impact of this excerpt that reflects Gelissen’s decision to tell her story in memoir form?
Read the excerpt. My father had never met Andrzej, yet that morning he sent for the boy he had forbidden me to see to come into our house. Not a word had been spoken to me about these arrangements. This was my father, and of course I was not consulted. I was standing in the kitchen when I heard Andrzej’s voice at our door. My knees sank. Mama scrutinized me. I did not even look at his face. “Welcome, Andrzej. Please have a seat.” Papa offered him a chair. . . . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Determine the narrator’s point of view in Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz .
Read the excerpt. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Finally, Andrzej signaled for me to stand up. Slowly, bracing my hands against the river rocks, I stood. My legs were barely able to stand my weight, they were shaking so badly with cold and fear. Which best describes the impact of Gelissen’s first-person account of her experiences in the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz ?
Read the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” “I heard what happened last night, Mr. Kornreich. I understand your concern.” “I have no money to pay you for this favor.” “Sir, I would not take any money from you. She is my friend since childhood. I will do whatever you ask to help your daughter.” “Thank you.” Papa paused, stroking his chin where his beard should have been. “You seem like a man of your word. If you would bring Rena across the border to Slovakia, her mother and I might find sleep at night.” Which sentence best summarizes the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border. Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance. Who knew the border better than Andrzej?... “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” What assumptions can be made about the setting described in the excerpt?
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