Write a detailed description of a "stage setting" encountered in everyday life (restaurant, department store, office, or the like) and explain the atmosphere created, and what elements combine to create that atmosphere.

Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins, rely on contrasts between two very important elements,

a) carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines. b) yin and yang. c) her love of Mao's Cultural Revolution and her need to paint. d) large and miniature grid patterns.

This production opened with a visually absurd scene without dialogue. Which of the

following is true?

a) An army chorus danced a bizarre soft-shoe style number b) Mother Courage and her children stared at the audience for long moments c) a giant puppet gave gifts to robotic-like characters d) a stylized battle between one red and one blue army was performed e) nothing visual happened, the play opened as the text describes with the entrance of Mother Courage and her children with the wagon.