Important Questions for Second Year (XII)
Important Questions for Second Year Text 1. Explain the importance of the label on Mrs. Oakentubb’s suitcase. Why does she hide it? 2. What motive has the man for murdering her? 3. In this melodrama, the author keeps on building up the tension and then relaxing it, until the final moment of tension when the murder is done. Briefly describe the chief moments of tension and what follows after each one? 4. Write a brief character sketch of Mrs. Oakentubb? 5. At what point in the play do we become certain that the man knows that the woman in the waiting room is Mrs. Oakentubb? When, in fact do you think he discovered her identity? 6. Briefly discuss whether the play would have had a more satisfying ending. 7. Why is it insular for European historians to term the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire“The Dark Ages”? 8. On what ...