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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the first house guest uncomfortable?
(a) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing pepper.
(b) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing salt.
(c) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the dying plant.
(d) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the blizzard.

2. What does Tom do when Claire tries to embrace him?
(a) He returns the embrace.
(b) He kisses her.
(c) He rejects her.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

3. What does Claire require the second house guest to do before she will let him enter the greenhouse?
(a) Put away his gun.
(b) Kiss her.
(c) Retrieve salt from the house.
(d) Retrieve pepper from the house.

4. Who calls Claire unnatural?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Tom.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Adelaide.

5. Why does a character apologize to Tom?
(a) Claire's call for help was meant for Dick.
(b) Claire's unreasonable behavior caused Tom to run upstairs.
(c) Harry's unreasonable behavior embarrassed Tom.
(d) Claire's call for help was meant for Anthony.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the second house guest bring from the house?

3. What does the interior of the greenhouse symbolize?

4. What does Claire ask Harry to do when she goes downstairs?

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

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