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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 is Gross's new title?
(a) Assistant Director.
(b) Deputy Manager.
(c) Deputy Director.
(d) Assistant Manager.

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

3. What is Gross symbolically holding when Ballas and Pillar return to his office in Act 1 Scene 4?
(a) An empty box.
(b) A fire extinguisher.
(c) A paper weight.
(d) A Ptydepe Dictionary.

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

5. Why does Gross state that he would have rather kept his former position?
(a) He likes watching people.
(b) He could take longer breaks to be with Maria.
(c) There was a lot less responsibility.
(d) There would be less worrying about bureaucrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does George categorize Maria's actions?

2. What does Ballas threaten Gross with?

3. What is interesting about the way Ballas receives the mail in Act 2, Scene 7?

4. What does Ballas ask Gross at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 4?

5. What is Maria's reaction to Gross' new position?

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