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I just need help with this questions it would mean the world to me if someone help me! the story a2 and a1 are at the bottom.

3. Please refer to Story A2 and answer the following question. 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. Please refer to Story A2 and answer the following question. 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. Please refer to Story A2 and answer the following question. 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

6. Please refer to Story A1 and answer the following question. 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

Answer 1

D

D

B

A

Explanation: option 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 best suits the next line seeing that it connotes meaning to the last sentence.

From the passage The English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot took place in London it can be inferred that the play wasnt performed first in English.

Innovative best suits the word avant-garde

Scape goat best fills the gap since the passage reffers to projecting evil unto someone else

Answer 2

Question 3: The answer is B. This is because the next phrase begins with ‘however’ with a meaning of ‘but’ as shown by the following sentence which endorses the play.

Question 7: The answer is A. The play´s first performance was in 1955. The other options cannot be inferred from the Story A2.

Question 10: The term avant-garde, as utilized in the passage, shows synonymy with innovative. The reason behind this is because the play Godot only required five actors, not very common for a theatre play.

Question 6: The answer is A. Scapegoat would be the word that best fits the blank space since the following sentence refers to someone whom the people could project their inner fears.