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The contrasts the narrator draws in sentences 1 and 2 between the
Players' homes and the houses in the "landscape" and between the
Players' automobiles and the "roads" are most likely meant to suggest that
the Players' homes and automobiles are - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔modern and
alien
Based on the passage, which of the following most accurately
characterizes the claim that "there was plenty of time to smooth the thing
out" (sentence 8)?
Clumping their heavy galoshes around the stage, blotting at their noses
with Kleenex and frowning at the unsteady print of their scripts, they would
disarm each other at last with peals of forgiving laughter, and they would
agree, over and over, that there was plenty of time to smooth the thing out.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A comforting falsehood that the Players know to be untrue
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, The descriptive language in sentence 10 is mainly intended to reinforce the
passage's depiction of the Players'
Long after the time had come for what the director called "really getting this
thing off the ground; really making it happen," it remained a static,
shapeless, inhumanly heavy weight; time and time again they read the
promise of failure in each other's eyes, in the apologetic nods and smiles of
their parting and the spastic haste with which they broke for their cars and
drove home to whatever older, less explicit promises of failure might lie in
wait for them there - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔persistent mood of despair regarding
the play
The narrator most strongly suggests that which of the following resulted in
the transformation described in the last paragraph
And now tonight, with twenty-four hours to go, they had somehow managed
to bring it off. Giddy in the unfamiliar feel of make-up and costumes on this
first warm evening of the year, they had forgotten to be afraid: they had let
the movement of the play come and carry them and break like a wave; and
maybe it sounded corny (and what if it did?) but they had all put their hearts
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