Sample Exam Questions: Short Answer

Answer the following questions in no more than two fairly short sentences.  Some can be answered with a short phrase. 

  1. When Bottom wakes up at the end of Act IV, Scene 1 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, how does he respond to being transformed into an ass?
  2. In Andre Dubus' "All the Time in the World," LuAnn Arceneaux is shocked by something Ted Briggs says to her in their first conversation, over brunch. What does he say?
  3. In the movie Proof, why is it significant that Martin tells the doctor that he “forgot” that he was blind? 
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