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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept confuses Leslie and Sarah and threatens to create a problem?
(a) Religion
(b) Exclusivity
(c) Children
(d) Unfaithfulness

2. Who calms the men down?
(a) The men concede on their own
(b) Nancy
(c) Sarah
(d) The two women together

3. What do Leslie and Sarah determine after their first contact with the humans?
(a) They are very dangerous
(b) They may become dangerous
(c) They are dead
(d) There is no immediate danger

4. What does Nancy crave as her life's potential?
(a) Education
(b) Business sense
(c) Power
(d) Adventure

5. What does the human couple offer the lizard couple at the end of Act 2?
(a) Help
(b) Guidance
(c) Money
(d) Reward

6. What is the name of the male lizard?
(a) Charlie
(b) Larry
(c) Leslie
(d) Lewis

7. What does Nancy say that Charlie believes himself and Nancy to be?
(a) Dead
(b) Sad
(c) Alive
(d) Happy

8. What do Charlie and Nancy mostly do to each other throughout the entire Act 2?
(a) Annoy each other
(b) Frustrate each other
(c) Love each other
(d) Belittle each other

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

10. What does Charlie bring up as the lizards explain about their feelings for leaving the sea?
(a) The theory of progress
(b) Einstein's theory of relativity
(c) The theory of evolution
(d) The biography of Charles Darwin

11. What does Charlie try to explain as the lizards are frightened by the overhead noise?
(a) The concept of flight
(b) The concept of machines
(c) The concept of aeronautics
(d) The concept of gravity

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

13. After the discussion of love, what does the topic turn to?
(a) Divorce
(b) Sex
(c) Unfaithfulness
(d) Family

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

15. How does Charlie react to Nancy telling the lizards about Charlie's hearts desire?
(a) He is sad and depressed
(b) He is happy and open
(c) He is infuriated and embarrased
(d) He is joyful and anticipatory

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the lizards think about the gestation period of human reproduction?

2. What flies overhead as the men are arguing?

3. What is the author's purpose of the play?

4. What position are Nancy and Charlie in when Act 2 opens?

5. What does Sarah begin to do now that she is angry?

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