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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Ballas tell Gross that the log book needs to be replaced?
(a) It is lost.
(b) It has been stolen.
(c) It is full.
(d) It has been damaged.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Act 1, Scene 3 take place?

4. What does Maria ask Gross in Act 1, Scene 6?

5. What is Gross' main concern that leads him to become angry in Act 1, Scene 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is important about Maria's gesture to Gross at the end of Act 1, Scene 6, and what is the irony in it?

2. What are some more examples of Ballas' parallel experience to Gross' time as Managing Director that are given in the first part of Act 2, Scene 9?

3. How does Lear explain Ptydepe in describing the process for learning it?

4. What are some examples of the familiarity of Ballas' morning as Managing Director and what is it similar to?

5. How is the symbolism of the fire extinguisher heightened at the beginning of the second part of Act 2, Scene 9, part 2 with George and Gross?

6. What do Ballas and Column continue to perpetuate by going to lunch in the middle of Lear's lecture in Act 2, Scene 11?

7. After all of the speculation throughout the play, what are the contents of Gross' memo revealed to be, and what effect does this have on him?

8. How do Stroll and Savant talk about Maria and what do they infer about Gross?

9. Why does Gross report to the Training Center in Act 1, Scene 5, and what is he carrying?

10. Explain the symbolic meanings behind some of the characters introduced in Act 1, Scene 3.

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