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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is expected to happen on this day in the third act in the greenhouse?
(a) The experimental plant is expected to bloom.
(b) The experimental plant is expected to die.
(c) The greenhouse heat will be diverted to the house.
(d) A dinner party is scheduled.

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

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

4. Who brings Elizabeth to the greenhouse?
(a) Dick.
(b) Tom.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Harry.

5. Why is Anthony's offer rejected?
(a) He is dying.
(b) Claire would not want anything that isn't authentic.
(c) He must stay to care for the plants.
(d) He has a wife and children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dick enter the greenhouse in Act 3?

2. What is the one item that stands out in the greenhouse?

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

4. What does Claire tell Tom regarding "The Breath of Life?"

5. What is Claire unable to explain regarding her experiment?

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