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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nancy do to continue to communicate with the lizards?
(a) She tries to teach them to dance
(b) She tries to get them to swim
(c) She changes her clothes
(d) She changes the subject

2. What flies overhead and frightens the lizards?
(a) Another jet
(b) A flock of seagulls
(c) A heliocopter
(d) A kite

3. What does Nancy want so desperately that she will entertain a friendship from another species?
(a) Love
(b) Understanding
(c) Sex
(d) Interaction

4. What does Nancy take the opportunity to do now that Charlie is explaining underwater machinery?
(a) She talks about how she wants an adventure
(b) She brings up his childhood dream
(c) She tells the lizards Charlie is lazy
(d) She brings up the liver paste sandwiches

5. What does Charlie try to explain to Leslie is the difference between their search for a mate?
(a) Humans are immature
(b) Humans look for love
(c) Lizards look for love
(d) Lizards are more simple

6. Why does Nancy tell they lizards that they should stay?
(a) Because she needs them for company
(b) Because they will just return at some point
(c) Because they would like land better
(d) Because she likes them

7. What does the topic of mammaries lead to a discussion of?
(a) Sex and love
(b) Breastfeeding
(c) Procreation and child rearing
(d) Eggs and sperm

8. Because Charlie is not willing to let a male of any species view his wife's breasts, what does he do?
(a) Charlie covers Leslie eyes with his hands
(b) Charlie attacks Leslie
(c) Charlie thwarts Leslie's view
(d) Charlie covers up his wife

9. How do the stilted efforts to communicate between the lizards and the humans make Charlie feel?
(a) Exhausted
(b) Elated
(c) Overwhelmed
(d) Frustrated

10. How does Charlie feel about answering the lizards question about change?
(a) Unsure
(b) Confident
(c) Embarassed
(d) Angry

11. What do the lizards first do to Charlie and Nancy?
(a) They punch them
(b) They walk past them
(c) They poke them
(d) They attack them

12. Who does Charlie engage in a conversation with after Nancy begins to speak?
(a) Leslie
(b) himself
(c) Sarah
(d) Charlie interrupts Nancy

13. What does the play Seascape bring together in a literary masterpiece?
(a) Fantasy and science
(b) Reality and science
(c) Fantasy and reality
(d) Reality and reproduction

14. What does Nancy explain is the reason that parents keep children besides rearing?
(a) For company
(b) For money
(c) For workers
(d) For love

15. What happens to the two men as a result of Leslie not conceding to Sarah's desires?
(a) A physical attack
(b) A verbal attack
(c) They swim in the ocean
(d) They stop speaking to each other

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nancy urge her husband to do?

2. How do Charlie and Nancy react to the actions of the lizards as they first approach them in a submissive position?

3. What flies overhead as the men are arguing?

4. What sounds appealing to Sarah during the discussion on exclusivity?

5. What does Nancy and the lizards mostly engage in?

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