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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first sound the audience hears in Act 1?
(a) Wind.
(b) A conversation.
(c) A buzzer.
(d) Laughter.

2. What are Anthony's specific instructions?
(a) Keep salt away from the special plant.
(b) Keep the special plant alive at all costs.
(c) Hide the special plant from Harry.
(d) Kill the special plant.

3. What is the special plant about to do?
(a) Go to seed.
(b) Flower.
(c) Die.
(d) Be transplanted.

4. What does Harry confide to the two house guests after Claire exits?
(a) He no longer loves Claire.
(b) He hopes to get advice from them regarding Claire.
(c) He believes Claire is having an affair.
(d) He does not want Claire to spend time with her daughter.

5. Who does Claire beg to take her away from the house?
(a) Dick.
(b) Harry.
(c) Tom.
(d) The doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doctor's area of practice?

2. What does Claire want Elizabeth to do regarding the plants?

3. Who is the first character to come onstage in Act 1?

4. Why is the setting in Act 2's symbolism ironic?

5. When the curtain opens for a second time in Act 1, what is the scene?

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