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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. What Department does the Ptydepe Translation Center replace?
(a) The Shipping Department.
(b) The Accounts Department.
(c) The Marketing Department.
(d) The Human Resources Department.

2. What leads to Ballas and Gross switching positions?
(a) The Staff Watcher's report.
(b) A bet that Gross loses.
(c) A decision from the higher-ups.
(d) Gross' lack of Ptydepe proficiency.

3. What does Gross carry with him throughout Scene 2?
(a) The memorandum.
(b) A pen and paper.
(c) A roll.
(d) The new log book.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hana point out does not know Ptydepe either?

2. What is Pillar's response when he is asked by Ballas if he knows Ptydepe?

3. The larger metaphor for the clerk is a warning against what?

4. What reason does Gross give Maria for wanting to stay with the company?

5. What does Hana repeatedly ask Gross in Act 1, Scene 4?

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