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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who requested that breakfast be served in the greenhouse?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Claire.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Harry.

3. What happens after the first character onstage exits?
(a) The unusual-looking plant dies.
(b) The telephone rings.
(c) The curtain closes.
(d) The greenhouse door opens.

4. What does Harry confide to the first house guest?
(a) Claire has hidden the salt and pepper.
(b) He is considering having a doctor friend observe Claire's behavior.
(c) He no longer loves Claire.
(d) Claire is having an affair.

5. Who is the second house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?
(a) Dick.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Tom.
(d) Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't Anthony answer the buzz from Harry?

2. What does Tom advise Harry to do?

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

4. What is the first thing the audience sees in Act 1?

5. What does the second house guest do when he sees that no one can help him enter the greenhouse?

(see the answer key)

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