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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word (in a dramatic or literary work) refers to a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot?
(a) Climax.
(b) Hill.
(c) Wave.
(d) Outcrop.

2. What does Dan bring Diana a box of in Act 1, Scene 10?
(a) Food.
(b) A puppy.
(c) Gabe's things.
(d) A kitten.

3. What does Gabe eventually influence Diana to say in Act 1, Scene 10?
(a) "Death, release me."
(b) "I will get better."
(c) "I miss my son."
(d) "I'll die to dance with..."

4. What word means lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid?
(a) Camoflauged.
(b) Dormant.
(c) Implacable.
(d) Intracable.

5. Who wrote the music for Next to Normal?
(a) Tom Kitt.
(b) John Robbins.
(c) Edward Holmes.
(d) Matthew Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug do Natalie and Henry use in Act 1, Scene 4?

2. What form of treatment does Diana's doctor begin in the ending of Act 1, Scene 8?

3. What object is a particular trigger for Diana of memories of Gabe in the narrative?

4. What song does Dan sing in reply to Diana's song in Act 1, Scene 6?

5. What lightly textured waltz tune does Diana sing in Act 1, Scene 10?

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