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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2 Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Claire give the object to Hal?
(a) She wants to sabotage Catherine.
(b) She thinks someone needs to find out what is in it.
(c) She is hiding the object from Robert.
(d) She is trying to win his love.

2. Why doesn't Claire believe Catherine about the proof?
(a) She knows that Catherine is terrible at mathematics.
(b) She knows that Robert wrote the proof--he told her before his death.
(c) She wrote the proof herself.
(d) She thinks Catherine is emotionally unstable.

3. What does Robert ask Catherine to do?
(a) He asks her to stay out of his research.
(b) He asks her to move back home.
(c) He asks her to leave him alone.
(d) He asks her to work with him.

4. What has Catherine missed to come back to the house?
(a) She has missed a shift at work.
(b) She has missed a date.
(c) She has missed her favorite television program.
(d) She has missed a class.

5. What is the proof?
(a) Evidence in a criminal case involving Catherine.
(b) Evidence in a criminal case involving Robert.
(c) A mathematical theorem about prime numbers.
(d) A mathematical theorem about geometry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claire think about Hal's relationship with Catherine?

2. Who was Claire drinking with the night before?

3. Who paid the mortgage on the house during Robert's illness?

4. Why is Catherine adamant that Robert could not have written the proof?

5. Who does Hal think has written the proof?

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