"The Good Woman of Sichuan" by Bertolt Brecht.
1. What is the name of the main character of the play?
Answer: Shen Te.
2. What dual character does Shen Te have?
Answer: Shui Ta.
3. How many gods appear in the play?
Answer: Three.
4. Why do gods come to earth?
Answer: To find a good man.
5. What occupation was Shane Tey engaged in?
Answer: Prostitution.
6. What do the gods give to Shen?
Answer: One thousand dollars in silver.
7. Who is the character named Wang?
Answer: A water seller, who loves Shen Te.
8. Who does Shui Ta introduce to Shen Te?
Answer: His cousin brother.
9. Why does Shen Te Shui create his character?
Answer: To take hard and cruel decisions.
10. What business did Shane start?
Answer: Tobacco shop.
11. Who is the character named Sun?
Answer: A pilot, who proposes marriage to Shen Te.
12. Why does Shen Te want to marry Sun?
Answer: To hide her pregnancy.
13. How does Shui Ta do business?
Answer: Cruelly and harshly.
14. What decision did the gods make at the end of the play?
Answer: To go back to heaven.
15. Who speaks to the audience at the end of the play?
Answer: An actor.
16. Where does the play take place?
Answer: In the fictional Chinese city of Sichuan.
17. Who does Shane want to help?
Answer: His neighbors and relatives.
18. Q: What questions does the play raise about "being good"?
Answer: How can a man survive from good?
19. Q: What is the main difference between Shen Te and Shui?
Answer: One is kind, the other is cruel
20. Question: What is the main message of the play?
Answer: It is difficult to live honestly in the present social system
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