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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the clerk's character symbolize?
(a) The result of a meaningless system.
(b) The dangers of blind loyalty in a bureaucratic system.
(c) The concerns of the common worker.
(d) The notion of how lazy workers can advance in a company through deceit.

2. What overall theme does the author use the office to illustrate?
(a) How to deal with troubled employees.
(b) The problems workers have with authority.
(c) Government bureaucracy.
(d) Office managers seldom know what is happening in their own office.

3. What point is the author trying to make by having Hana make separate trips for food?
(a) They don't have money in the budget for a new log book, but there is money for food.
(b) She is wasting time, but no one realizes it.
(c) Gross has no control over her.
(d) She is always hungry.

4. Hypothetically, the use of Ptydepe could remove what from the office?
(a) Waste of paper for multiple memos.
(b) A number of positions.
(c) The need to speak.
(d) Misunderstanding in inter-office communications.

5. In modern times, what is a term used to describe the act of portraying something negative in a positive way?
(a) "Bloviating."
(b) "Rant."
(c) "Get on a soapbox."
(d) "Spin."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the clerk's name in Scene 2?

2. According to Lear, how is the best way to learn Ptydepe?

3. Who is revealed to be the person that authorized the use of Ptydepe?

4. What style of writing best describes The Memorandum?

5. According to Gross and Hana's discussion, what is strange about Ptydepe, the new language being introduced?

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