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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as Act 2, Scene 8 progresses?
(a) Lear becomes confused.
(b) Helena interrupts the lecture.
(c) Ballas interrupts the lecture.
(d) Lear's student becomes confused.

2. Gross admits that he has always been more of a dreamer than what?
(a) A liar.
(b) A doer.
(c) A survivor.
(d) A fighter.

3. What does Gross think he has to earn at the end of Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) Maria's loyalty.
(b) Maria's love and admiration.
(c) Maria's respect and sympathy.
(d) Maria's trust.

4. What does Hana tell Ballas people are saying about Ptydepe?
(a) Only Stroll can speak it.
(b) It does not exist.
(c) It was made up by Ballas.
(d) It is based on doubtful principles.

5. What new position does Ballas offer Gross in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) Gopher.
(b) Director of Accounting.
(c) Staff Watcher.
(d) Head of the Department of Authentication.

6. Who passes through the lecture as Lear is talking?
(a) Ballas.
(b) Savant.
(c) Gross.
(d) Stroll.

7. What is Ballas' role in Lear's class?
(a) He was tricked by Lear into authorizing it.
(b) He is trying to understand it.
(c) He protests against it.
(d) He is unaware of it because he is focused on lunch.

8. What is interesting about the way Ballas receives the mail in Act 2, Scene 7?
(a) It happens at the end of the day.
(b) It illustrates his reliance on Pillar.
(c) It mirrors the way Gross did at the beginning of the play.
(d) It happens at the beginning of the day.

9. What does George throw at Gross after hearing the news of his position change?
(a) A Ptydepe Dictionary.
(b) A fire extinguisher.
(c) A cup of coffee.
(d) The memo.

10. In Act 2, Scene 10, what does Gross inform Ballas are his intentions?
(a) To end the use of Ptydepe.
(b) To visit the higher-ups.
(c) To resign.
(d) To restore the Accounts Department.

11. What reason does Gross give Maria for wanting to stay with the company?
(a) So he can watch her.
(b) So he can work at the Department of Authentication.
(c) So he can get revenge on Ballas.
(d) So he can eventually take Stroll's job.

12. How does George categorize Maria's actions?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Pathetic.
(c) Admirable.
(d) Brilliant.

13. Who is excited about Chorukor?
(a) Pillar.
(b) Gross.
(c) Thumb.
(d) Ballas.

14. What point does Havel make about Ptydepe in Act 2, Scene 8?
(a) Even Lear doesn't understand it.
(b) Now Gross realizes its importance.
(c) The company would be lost without it.
(d) Even people who seemed to understand it before can see its uselessness.

15. What does Hana inform Ballas the memo could possibly be?
(a) His termination notice.
(b) An invoice for the new log book.
(c) Gross' resignation.
(d) A protest against Ptydepe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing the declining importance of Ptydepe?

2. What angers Ballas about Pillar's meetings?

3. What action does Lear take as a result of his impatience in Act 2, Scene 8?

4. What is significant about Pillar in Act 2, Scene 9?

5. What does Gross promise Maria in the second part of Act 2, Scene 9 that he will not do?

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