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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had the women in the 1970s been doing with their time prior to the social movements?
(a) Accounting
(b) Looking for a husband
(c) Mothering
(d) Developing a career

2. What does Nancy want to plan with Charlie?
(a) A flight to another beach
(b) Adventures
(c) A move to another home
(d) To adopt a child

3. What does Charlie ask his wife to find in order to defend themselves against the creatures?
(a) A dead fish
(b) Seaweed
(c) A rock
(d) A stick

4. What word best describes the character of Nancy?
(a) Brave
(b) Opinionated
(c) Insincere
(d) Forthright

5. What is the best way to describe the gesture that Nancy and Charlie are exhibiting for the creatures?
(a) Romantic
(b) Animalistic
(c) Deathly
(d) Fatalstic

6. How can the state of Charlie and Nancy's marriage be best described?
(a) Loving
(b) Easy
(c) Connective
(d) Difficult

7. Where does Charlie want to retire?
(a) In a retirement home
(b) In Florida
(c) On a boat
(d) On a stretch of beach somewhere

8. Where does the setting open in Act 1?
(a) A swimming pool
(b) The beach
(c) The desert
(d) East Hamptons

9. Describe Nancy's state of mind when the lizards reappear.
(a) Crazy
(b) Paralyzed
(c) Clear headed
(d) Confused

10. How does Nancy feel about Charlie's blase attitude?
(a) Angry
(b) Indifferent
(c) Happy
(d) Resentful

11. When does Nancy show fear?
(a) When she herself makes a frightening noise
(b) When the male lizard makes a frightening noise
(c) When her husband makes a frightening noise
(d) When the female lizard makes a frightening noise

12. What can Charlie's indifference to Nancy's needs can be viewed as?
(a) Helpful
(b) Upsetting
(c) Hurtful
(d) Loving

13. What is Nancy's ideal life?
(a) To teach
(b) To work a farm
(c) To raise more children
(d) To travel from beach to beach

14. What happens when the lizards move forward towards Charlie and Nancy?
(a) A rock tumbles into the ocean
(b) A tidal wave begins to build
(c) Another jet flies overhead
(d) A dolphin leaps from the water

15. How does Nancy feel about the sound that interrupts the couple?
(a) Nancy is in awe
(b) Nancy is panicked
(c) Nancy is scared
(d) Nancy is overwhelmed

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Charlie's actions do to his relationship with Nancy?

2. What is created in Charlie and Nancy's marriage as a result of miscommunication?

3. What does Charlie think the creatures must be a result of?

4. What does Nancy suggest her and Charlie do as the lizards approach?

5. What kind of woman has Nancy become?

(see the answer keys)

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