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Sharon E. Cooper, Mistaken Identity

Sharon E. Cooper, Mistaken Identity

Read Mistaken Identity and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. The play is set in

a restaurant in a Southern state college town.

a pub in Leicester, England.

a restaurant in Mumbai, India.

an Indian restaurant.

2. Steve wants Kali to

move in with him.

marry him.

introduce him to Michele.

be his girlfriend.

3. Steve claims to know about Indians because

he has seen a few Bollywood (Indian) movies or movies featuring Indian characters.

he used to date another Indian woman, until she left him.

Rashid has been coaching him.

he majors in Indian studies.

4. Kali tells Steve that she cannot marry him

until after they have been engaged for one year.

because she is lesbian.

until he breaks off his relationship with Michele.

because her family would never consent to her marrying a non-Indian.

5. “Why can’t what I want be part of the picket fence thing?” is said by

Steve.

Kali.

Rashid.

Michele.