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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about Ballas' order for Hana to go out and get the chocolates?
(a) He doesn't wait for her to ask permission to go.
(b) Ballas doesn't even like chocolates.
(c) He doesn't ask if she wanted chocolates in the first place.
(d) He doesn't offer any money to pay for them.

2. Which characters ask Pillar to speak with them privately?
(a) Stroll, Helena, and Maria.
(b) Stroll, Savant, and Helena.
(c) Stroll, Gross, and Helena.
(d) Stroll, Helena, and Lear.

3. What recurring item in the play does Gross hang up at the end of Act 2, Scene 10?
(a) The original memorandum.
(b) His coat.
(c) His fire extinguisher.
(d) His hat.

4. What is the point of Chorukor?
(a) To stop Ballas from resigning.
(b) To correct all of Ptydepe's mistakes.
(c) To please the higher-ups.
(d) To prevent employees from talking to each other.

5. What do Hana's continued repetitive trips to the store signify?
(a) She has no respect for Ballas.
(b) She is becoming more forgetful.
(c) She wishes Gross was her boss again.
(d) Bureaucracy does not matter to regular people.

6. What is the translated memo a protest of?
(a) The lack of respect Helena is showing Maria.
(b) The removal of Gross from his previous position of authority.
(c) Ballas' attitude with other employees.
(d) The removal of the Accounts Department to make room for the Translation Center.

7. What does Hana tell Ballas people are saying about Ptydepe?
(a) Only Stroll can speak it.
(b) It is based on doubtful principles.
(c) It was made up by Ballas.
(d) It does not exist.

8. What is significant about Pillar in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) He reveals his plan for taking Ballas's position.
(b) He remains unnoticed by Ballas.
(c) He talks to everyone but Gross.
(d) He admits that he understands Ptydepe.

9. What is Ballas holding when he enters the room in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) A bag of limes.
(b) A cup of coffee.
(c) A memo.
(d) A fire extinguisher.

10. In Act 2, Scene 10, what does Gross inform Ballas are his intentions?
(a) To visit the higher-ups.
(b) To restore the Accounts Department.
(c) To resign.
(d) To end the use of Ptydepe.

11. What proposal does Ballas make to Gross in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) To learn Ptydepe together.
(b) To work together to put the company back on track.
(c) To create a new language that will replace Ptydepe.
(d) To gather information to get Pillar fired.

12. At the beginning of Act 2, Scene 9, what is Maria trying on?
(a) An overcoat.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A hat.

13. What symbolism of hope does Havel use at the end of Act 2, Scene 8?
(a) Gross answering all of the questions correctly.
(b) Gross appearing with more authority than before.
(c) Lear teaching to an empty classroom.
(d) Ballas leaving the classroom defeated.

14. What is causing the declining importance of Ptydepe?
(a) A lack of interest.
(b) There are no more training classes being offered.
(c) It's complexity.
(d) Ballas' insistence that it be made mandatory.

15. Who is excited about Chorukor?
(a) Thumb.
(b) Pillar.
(c) Ballas.
(d) Gross.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maria do in the second part of Act 2, Scene 9 that no one else in the play has done up until this point?

2. What is the overall message in Act 2, Scene 11?

3. Who passes through the lecture as Lear is talking?

4. Gross admits that he has always been more of a dreamer than what?

5. What does Maria encourage Gross to do in the second part of Act 2, Scene 9?

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