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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 9, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the other bureaucrats sense about Ballas?
(a) His bureaucratic vulnerability.
(b) His incompetence.
(c) His arrogance.
(d) His reliance on Pillar.

2. Where does Gross wish he could return to at the end of Acct 1, Scene 4?
(a) His apartment.
(b) His childhood.
(c) Stroll's office.
(d) The Ptydepe Training Room.

3. What does Gross tell himself to rationalize his decision in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) That he could better serve the company in his new position.
(b) That he was too weak to resist it.
(c) That he had no choice.
(d) That Ballas was right.

4. In defense of Ptydepe, what does Ballas declare the new language is far more of than the current one?
(a) Error-proof.
(b) Comprehensive.
(c) Humanist.
(d) Basic.

5. What does Gross offer during his argument with Ballas?
(a) To resign.
(b) To pay for additional Ptydepe classes.
(c) To raise Ballas' salary.
(d) To confront the higher-ups.

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. In Act 2, Scene 7What does Ballas need help with?

3. What do Ballas and Gross argue about?

4. What is Gross's new title?

5. What does Gross promise Maria in the second part of Act 2, Scene 9 that he will not do?

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