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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nancy and Charlie hope their act will communicate to the lizards as they approach?
(a) Submission
(b) Defensiveness
(c) Peacefulness
(d) Curiosity

2. What word best describes Charlie and Nancy's ability to bridge the communication gap?
(a) Hopeful
(b) Forceful
(c) Paralysis
(d) Mediocre

3. What is Nancy in the mood for after lunch?
(a) To talk about the fresh salty air
(b) To talk about the shells
(c) To talk about the birds
(d) To talk about her love of water

4. What object does the creature peek out behind?
(a) A surfboard
(b) A mound of seaweed
(c) A cliff
(d) A rock

5. What does the sound of the jet make the lizards do?
(a) The sound makes them scream
(b) The sound sends them back behind the rocks
(c) The sound angers them and they attack
(d) The sound makes them bury their heads in the sand

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character finds a descent size stick?

2. How does Nancy feel about the sound that interrupts the couple?

3. In Charlie's childhood dream, what body of water did he want to live underneath?

4. What was Charlie testing when he let himself sink down to the bottom of the lake?

5. How did women feel about the use of their newly allowed free time in the 1970's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as Act 2 opens and the lizards approach?

2. Describe how the humans communicate effectively with the lizards.

3. What happens just as Nancy mentions the need to write postcards to the family?

4. How do Sarah and Charlie react to the exposure of Nancy's breasts?

5. Describe what happens during and as a result of the lizards approaching?

6. What does Charlie discuss with the lizards after they tell him why they left their home in the sea?

7. What does Sarah reveal to Nancy about her eggs?

8. What do Nancy and Charlie each think of the approaching lizards?

9. How does Nancy respond when Charlie mentions the concept of machines to the lizards and speaks of machines that go underwater?

10. What made the lizards leave their home in the sea?

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