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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the best description of Claire and Elizabeth's reunion?
(a) They stay on opposite sides of the room.
(b) They tend plants together.
(c) They embrace awkwardly.
(d) They laugh together at a private joke.

2. Why is there no heat in the house, even though the greenhouse is warm?
(a) The furnace is broken.
(b) Claire ordered the heat from the house to be diverted to the greenhouse.
(c) Harry ordered the heat from the house to be diverted to the greenhouse.
(d) The greenhouse retains heat better than the house does.

3. What does Tom advise Harry to do?
(a) Let Claire go on as she is.
(b) Find out who Claire's lover is.
(c) Divorce Claire since he no longer loves her.
(d) Destroy the plants.

4. When the curtain opens for a second time in Act 1, what is the scene?
(a) The interior of a greenhouse on a sunny, snowy morning.
(b) Outdoors in a blizzard, with a greenhouse visible.
(c) An unusual plant in a shaft of light.
(d) A room in a tower.

5. Why is Claire astonished when she enters the greenhouse during the second part of Act 1?
(a) Because the greenhouse is too hot.
(b) Because Harry invited more people to intrude upon the greenhouse.
(c) Because a plant is dying.
(d) Because the special plant is in plain sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who brings Elizabeth to the greenhouse?

2. What is the first sound the audience hears in Act 1?

3. Which is the best description of Hattie?

4. Who are Tom and Dick?

5. What does the blizzard symbolize?

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