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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first of four short plays anthologized under the title "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom"?
(a) "Serpents."
(b) "Squirrels."
(c) "Sasquatch."
(d) "Snails."

2. For what play did Parks receive the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
(a) In The Blood.
(b) Locomotive.
(c) The Sinner's Place.
(d) Topdog/Underdog.

3. The speakers in "Third Kingdom" reveal aspects of their dreams, many of which refer to what?
(a) Their reality.
(b) An other Self.
(c) Secret obsessions.
(d) Past failures.

4. In "Elements of Style," Parks incorporates diagrams illustrating how some of her works function as what?
(a) Postmodernist identities.
(b) Methodical melodramas.
(c) Mathematical equations.
(d) Grammatical symbols.

5. What is the name of the exterminator Charlene intends to call in "C" of "Snails"?
(a) Lutzky.
(b) Borishnikov.
(c) Koritchev.
(d) Ovechkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aretha recalls a conversation with a slave-master named what in scene "D" of "Open House"?

2. What is the speaker at the podium referred to as in scene "B" of "Snails"?

3. The children in the beginning of "Open House" are worried about who will take care of what when Aretha is gone?

4. What man does Aretha tell to be patient in scene "A" of "Open House"?

5. Who tells the others to line up and calls out "Land Ho!" in the ending of "Third Kingdom"?

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