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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of wife does Charlie tell Nancy she is?
(a) A happy wife
(b) A resentful wife
(c) A cunning wife
(d) A good wife

2. What does the sound of the jet make the lizards do?
(a) The sound makes them scream
(b) The sound sends them back behind the rocks
(c) The sound makes them bury their heads in the sand
(d) The sound angers them and they attack

3. Where does Charlie want to retire?
(a) On a boat
(b) In Florida
(c) In a retirement home
(d) On a stretch of beach somewhere

4. As the play opens, what have Charlie and Nancy finished enjoying?
(a) A walk on the shore line
(b) A picnic lunch
(c) Feeding the seagulls
(d) A long run

5. How many times during Act 1 does Nancy bring up Charlie's childhood dream of living underwater?
(a) Once
(b) Twice
(c) Three times
(d) Never

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of man has Charlie become?

2. How does Nancy feel about the sound that interrupts the couple?

3. How does Nancy's choice in twigs make her husband feel?

4. What does Charlie think the creatures must be a result of?

5. What events does the author use the character of Nancy to shed light on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the conversation of exclusivity threaten to create a problem?

2. What does Sarah learn from Nancy as they notice a flock of seagulls flying overhead?

3. What happens just as Nancy mentions the need to write postcards to the family?

4. How does Leslie describe his pairing with Sarah?

5. After the biological information about procreation and child-rearing is explained, what concept does Nancy tell the lizards about that the lizards do not understand?

6. Where would Charlie like to spend his retirement?

7. What happens when Leslie cannot concede complete loyalty to Sarah?

8. Describe the opening setting of Act 1.

9. As a jet flies overhead and distracts the couple, what does Nancy steer the conversation back to and remind Charlie of?

10. What happens to the lizards as a jet flies overhead?

(see the answer keys)

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