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Scaffolded/Short-Answer Essay Questions
Use these essay questions as writing and critical thinking exercises for all levels of writers, and to build their literary analysis skills by requiring textual references throughout the essay.
1. Strict gender roles of the time dictate much of the action and dialogue of the play.
2. If we assume the play is set during the time it was written, it takes place in 1947. Certain references to music and politics provide contextual clues to the times as well.
3. Poker is a card game that the men repeatedly play in the text.
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