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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the clerk receive for asking the questions?
(a) Termination.
(b) A lecture.
(c) An A.
(d) A gold star.

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

5. Who does Gross talk to while he is waiting for Helena?
(a) Savant.
(b) George.
(c) Himself.
(d) Hana.

6. What does Lear take a great deal of time to do?
(a) Answer questions.
(b) Argue with Gross.
(c) Explain how Ptydepe was developed.
(d) Finish a sentence.

7. What does Lear acknowledge about Ptydepe?
(a) It was created for the wrong reasons.
(b) It seems complicated.
(c) It is not structured well.
(d) It is pointless.

8. 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) Gross has no control over her.
(c) She is wasting time, but no one realizes it.
(d) She is always hungry.

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

10. What does Ballas threaten Gross with?
(a) Going over his head to get the notice authenticated.
(b) Resigning from the company.
(c) Causing Gross to lose his job.
(d) Speaking Ptydepe to Gross permanently.

11. Why is Savant "unable" to offer Gross any coffee?
(a) There isn't enough.
(b) Gross drinks too much already.
(c) They aren't drinking any.
(d) They tell him it tastes horrible.

12. How does Stroll exit in Act 1, Scene 3?
(a) Angrily.
(b) Suddenly.
(c) Involuntarily.
(d) Slowly.

13. Who does Ballas point out is in control of Ptydepe?
(a) Maria.
(b) Helena.
(c) Savant.
(d) The higher-ups.

14. Who gets quizzed along with Gross on their knowledge of Ptydepe?
(a) Maria.
(b) Hana.
(c) Ballas.
(d) Thumb.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does Hana have that prevents her from doing work?

2. Where does Scene 2 take place?

3. Who does Gross attempt to persuade in order to bypass authorization?

4. What does George, the Staff Watcher, do that upsets Gross and causes him to leave the room?

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

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