34 pages 1 hour read

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

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  1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
  2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

Act 1

1. When Estragon shrugs off the suggestion that without Vladimir, he would be “nothing more than a little heap of bones,” Vladimir muses, “We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties. [. . .] Hand in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now it’s too late.” What is Vladimir suggesting they should have done?

A) helped each other climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower

B) had their photograph taken at the Eiffel Tower

C) pledged their loyalty to each other at the Eiffel Tower

D) jumped off the top of the Eiffel Tower together

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