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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Stroll tell Gross is necessary in order to prevent any further individualism?
(a) The authorization of all future purchases.
(b) The mandatory number of hours a worker is required to work.
(c) The authorization for all Ptydepe translations.
(d) The restriction of any worker leaving the office.

3. What happens to cause everyone at the party to stop talking?
(a) They discover there is no more coffee.
(b) Ballas and Pillar enter the room.
(c) Gross shouts for them to be quiet.
(d) Maria slaps Stroll for making a rude comment.

4. Which phrase best describes the clerk's actions?
(a) Admirable.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Sucking up.

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

6. Where is Ballas located at the end of Act 1, Scene 4?
(a) Strolls' office.
(b) The break room.
(c) Gross' desk.
(d) His old desk.

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

8. What does Gross declare is reduced when people are forbidden to use their natural language?
(a) Their education.
(b) Their sanity.
(c) Their humanity.
(d) Their dignity.

9. Where does the Staff Watcher watch from?
(a) A hole in the wall.
(b) The closet.
(c) The main office.
(d) The corner.

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

11. What does Gross' lack of Ptydepe knowledge signal, according to Lear?
(a) That he is smarter than the rest of the class.
(b) That he is not genuinely interested in learning Ptydepe.
(c) That he deserved to be removed from his position.
(d) That he should not be working for the company.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gross ask Lear to do for him in Act 1, Scene 5?

2. What is Gross symbolically holding when Ballas and Pillar return to his office in Act 1 Scene 4?

3. What point is the author trying to make by having Hana make separate trips for food?

4. What does Lear take a great deal of time to do?

5. What does Lear acknowledge about Ptydepe?

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