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Please refer to Story A2 and answer the following questions:
3. Which sentence, if inserted in the blank space, would make the best sense in the context of the passage?
a. The director, Peter Hall, had to beg the theater management not to close the play immediately but to wait for the Sunday reviews.
b. Despite the audience reaction, the cast and director believed in the play.
c. It looked as if Waiting for Godot was beginning a long run as the most controversial play of London's 1955 season.
d. Waiting for Godot was in danger of closing the first week of its run and of becoming nothing more than a footnote in the annals of the English stage.
7. Judging from the information provided in the paragraph, which of the following statements is accurate?
a. The 1955 production of Waiting for Godot was the play's first performance.
b. Waiting for Godot was written by Peter Hall.
c. The sets and characters in Waiting for Godot were typical of London stage productions in the 1950s.
d. Waiting for Godot was not first performed in English.
10. Which of the following provides the best definition of the term "avant-garde" as the author intends it in the passage?
a. Unintelligible
b. Innovative
c. Foreign
d. High-brow
Please refer to Story A1 and answer the following question:
6. Which of the following words would best fit into the blank in the final sentence of the passage?
a. Scapegoat
b. Hero
c. Leader
d. Victim
Story A1:
The fictional world of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison's novel "Sula"—the African-American section of Medallion, Ohio, a community called the Bottom—is a place where people and natural things are apt to go awry, to break from their prescribed boundaries, a place where bizarre and unnatural happenings and strange reversals of the ordinary are commonplace. The very naming of the setting of "Sula" is a turning upside-down of the expected; the Bottom is located high in the hills. The novel is filled with images of mutilation, both psychological and physical. A great part of the lives of the characters, therefore, is taken up with making sense of the world, setting boundaries, and devising methods to control what is essentially uncontrollable. One of the major devices used by the people of the Bottom is the seemingly universal one of creating a _____________; in this case, the title character Sula—upon which to project both the evil they perceive outside themselves and the evil in their own hearts.
Story A2:
The English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" took place in London in August 1955. "Godot" is an avant-garde play with only five characters (not including Mr. Godot, who never arrives) and a minimal setting: one rock and one bare tree. The play has two acts; the second act repeats what little action occurs in the first with few changes: The tree, for instance, acquires one leaf. In a statement that was to become famous, the critic Vivian Mercer has described "Godot" as "a play in which nothing happens twice." Opening night, critics and playgoers greeted the play with bafflement and derision. The line, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful," was met by a loud rejoinder of "Hear! Hear!" from an audience member. _____________________________________. However, Harold Hobson's review in The Sunday Times managed to recognize the play for what history has proven it to be, a revolutionary moment in theater.
