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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Friday Night.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Agnes pondering as Act 1 begins?
(a) What it would be like to be a flight attendant.
(b) What she should wear to dinner tonight.
(c) What she should plant in the vegetable garden.
(d) What it would be like to go mad.

2. Who is the main female character?
(a) Ava
(b) Agnes
(c) Anne
(d) Annette

3. Who is the main male character?
(a) Terence
(b) Thomas
(c) Tobias
(d) Timothy

4. Claire apologizes to Agnes for bringing out such ____________ in Agnes.
(a) Jealousy
(b) Venom
(c) Envy
(d) Spite

5. According to Agnes, if you can entertain the idea of going mad, ________________________________.
(a) you are in some jeopardy of going over the edge.
(b) you are certainly mad.
(c) you are probably mad.
(d) there is probably not any danger of it happening.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the format of A DELICATE BALANCE?

2. Tobias asks Claire why she does not go back to _______________________.

3. Who overhears what Agnes has been saying about Claire?

4. Who is Agnes and Tobias's daughter?

5. What is the setting for Act 1?

(see the answer key)

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