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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gross declare is reduced when people are forbidden to use their natural language?

2. What does the item that Gross is carrying in Act 1, Scene 5 symbolize?

3. What kind of a party is going on in Act 1, Scene 6?

4. What is Gross searching for throughout Act 1, Scene 3?

5. Who is Stroll?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subliminal warning does the character of Thumb bring from the author?

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. What does Maria's locating a new job for Gross say about her as a character, and what does Gross' reason for staying with the company say about him as a character?

4. What does Havel use the reference of a theater to symbolize?

5. What is a Ptydepeist, and what is their purpose?

6. What is the reason Lear gives for a need of the new language, Ptydepe?

7. What are some examples in Scene 6 of Gross being continually kept of the loop?

8. As illustrated in Scene 8, what is necessary for a bureaucracy to have power over its workers, and what is this an analogy for?

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

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

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