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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is very interesting about the intentional way Havel presents the office?
(a) The characters come and go without asking permission.
(b) The positions of the characters are never stated.
(c) The purpose of the office is never stated.
(d) It only has one room.

4. What does Gross interrupt at the start of Act 1, Scene 5?
(a) A meeting between Lear and Stroll.
(b) A conversation between Lear and Ballas.
(c) Lear's lecture.
(d) A board meeting called by Lear.

5. What does Gross finally concede to do in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Purchase a new rubber stamp.
(b) Talk to the Staff Watcher.
(c) Apologize to Stroll.
(d) Authorize the continued use of Ptydepe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase best describes the clerk's actions?

2. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

3. What does Gross declare is reduced when people are forbidden to use their natural language?

4. Why does the Department of Authentication refuse to authenticate the new log book?

5. What is Gross trying to get accomplished in Act 1, Scene 3?

(see the answer key)

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