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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gross offer during his argument with Ballas?
(a) To raise Ballas' salary.
(b) To resign.
(c) To confront the higher-ups.
(d) To pay for additional Ptydepe classes.

2. What does Maria ask Gross in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) If he is going to learn Ptydepe.
(b) Why he tried to steal from Stroll's office.
(c) Why he is no longer Managing Director.
(d) What he is doing at the party.

3. What does Hana repeatedly ask Gross in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) If she can go to lunch.
(b) If she can get some more milk.
(c) If she can have the authorization for Ptydepe lessons.
(d) If he knows where the new snack bar is located.

4. What kind of a party is going on in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) A Birthday party.
(b) A retirement party.
(c) A promotion party.
(d) A Ptydepe party.

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

6. What does Gross tell himself to rationalize his decision in Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) That Ballas was right.
(b) That he was too weak to resist it.
(c) That he had no choice.
(d) That he could better serve the company in his new position.

7. What does Gross fear if he does not agree to the switch?
(a) He will be even further demoted.
(b) His career will be over.
(c) He will have a lawsuit filed against him.
(d) He will have to talk to the Staff Watcher again.

8. According to Gross and Hana's discussion, what is strange about Ptydepe, the new language being introduced?
(a) It uses numbers in place of certain letters.
(b) Gross knows nothing about it.
(c) It contains no vowels.
(d) Hana understands it perfectly.

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

10. What is Gross' main concern that leads him to become angry in Act 1, Scene 6?
(a) The complicated process of getting a translation.
(b) The stupidity of Ptydepe.
(c) The abuse of power that Ballas is showing.
(d) The unfair treatment of Maria.

11. Ballas and the higher-ups manipulate Gross in order to bring what to the company?
(a) Less paperwork.
(b) A more efficient system.
(c) Progress.
(d) Ptydepe.

12. Gross is being intentionally forced to lose more of what?
(a) His independence of thought.
(b) His responsibility.
(c) His earnings.
(d) His employees.

13. The larger metaphor for the clerk is a warning against what?
(a) A Dictatorship.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) A Monarchy.
(d) Communism.

14. What do Stroll and Savant offer as proof for their theory that Gross "lusts after" Maria?
(a) That Gross always gets up when she enters the room.
(b) That Gross has asked her out on a date.
(c) That Gross has trouble speaking when she is around.
(d) That the Staff Watcher heard Gross call her sweetheart.

15. What is the clerk's name in Scene 2?
(a) Thumb.
(b) Toe.
(c) Knuckle.
(d) Pinky.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who receives an A, scoring better than Gross, on their knowledge of Ptydepe?

2. What do Ballas and Gross argue about?

3. Why is Savant "unable" to offer Gross any coffee?

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

5. What does Gross interrupt at the start of Act 1, Scene 5?

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