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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Charlie think the creatures must be a result of?
(a) Having eaten rancid liver paster for lunch
(b) Having salt water in their eyes
(c) A punishment for a faulty marriage
(d) Drinking too much wine

2. How does Nancy feel when the lizards reappear?
(a) Delighted
(b) Scared
(c) Angry
(d) Sarcastic

3. What does Charlie pass off Nancy's idea of his dream as?
(a) Childhood fancy
(b) Childhood humor
(c) Too hard
(d) Too lofty of a goal

4. What does Nancy not understand about Charlie's retirement plan?
(a) He's content to rest
(b) He's content to only learn to sail
(c) He's anxious to travel
(d) He's anxious to be a grandfather

5. What object does the creature peek out behind?
(a) A rock
(b) A surfboard
(c) A cliff
(d) A mound of seaweed

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Nancy suspect Charlie of having an affair?

2. How does Nancy describe her husband at the end of Act 1 while in submission to the lizards?

3. What can the combination of opportunity and confusion in the 1970s can best be described as?

4. Is the tension created in her marriage enough to silence Nancy?

5. What is the theme of Act 1?

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