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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Helena introduce herself as?
(a) The Supervisor of Ptydepe Training.
(b) The CEO.
(c) The Chairman.
(d) The Czar of Accounting.

2. What point does Havel make about Ptydepe in Act 2, Scene 8?
(a) Now Gross realizes its importance.
(b) The company would be lost without it.
(c) Even Lear doesn't understand it.
(d) Even people who seemed to understand it before can see its uselessness.

3. Lear agrees to help Gross, only if he can show that his interest in Ptydepe is what?
(a) Sincere.
(b) Fabricated.
(c) Mandatory.
(d) A sign of acceptance.

4. What is the goal of the higher-ups in explaining the necessity for Ptydepe?
(a) To justify something that is obviously senseless.
(b) To change the company's policy.
(c) To cause tension between the workers.
(d) To help the workers understand it better.

5. in Act 1, Scene 5, what does Lear attempt to illustrate about Ptydepe?
(a) Ptydepe does not use grammar.
(b) The vowels in Ptydepe are silent.
(c) Words in traditional language are given different meanings in Ptydepe.
(d) Ptydepe makes no sense.

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 underlying message about Stroll's position?

3. Gross is being intentionally forced to lose more of what?

4. What does Stroll tell Gross is necessary in order to prevent any further individualism?

5. What does George, the Staff Watcher, do that upsets Gross and causes him to leave the room?

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