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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the random growth patterns of the plants represent?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Ideas and creativity.
(c) Death.
(d) Outside forces.

2. Who worries that the cold weather will have adverse effects on the plants?
(a) Harry.
(b) Anthony and Harry.
(c) Hattie.
(d) Anthony.

3. What does Claire push off the table?
(a) Salt.
(b) Pepper.
(c) An egg.
(d) A plant.

4. From where does the beam of light originate?
(a) Above.
(b) From the left.
(c) A trap door in the floor.
(d) From a plant.

5. What does Claire try to explain to the first house guest?
(a) Why the salt is missing.
(b) Why the pepper is missing.
(c) The effects of the blizzard on the greenhouse.
(d) The significance of the greenhouse plants.

6. Who is the first house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?
(a) Dick.
(b) Hattie.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Tom.

7. What does the blizzard symbolize?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Ideas and creativity.
(c) Outside forces.
(d) Death.

8. What does the second house guest do when he sees that no one can help him enter the greenhouse?
(a) Drops the shaker.
(b) Pretends to shoot himself.
(c) Drops the breakfast supplies.
(d) Pretends to shoot out the greenhouse door.

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

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

11. When Claire becomes frustrated with Elizabeth, what does Claire want to do?
(a) Destroy all plants in the greenhouse.
(b) Destroy "The Edge Vine."
(c) Destroy "The Edge of Death."
(d) Destroy "The Breath of Life."

12. 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 greenhouse due to the dying plant.
(c) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the blizzard.
(d) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing salt.

13. Claire tries to strike Elizabeth with what?
(a) "The Edge Vine."
(b) A trowel.
(c) A salt shaker.
(d) A flowerpot.

14. Why does Claire caution Tom to be careful?
(a) God is not far away.
(b) Harry is not far away.
(c) Dick is listening.
(d) The plants are listening.

15. What is Elizabeth's philosophy regarding new plant varieties?
(a) Plants should never be hybridized.
(b) She likes only roses.
(c) Anything new should be better.
(d) New plants are always exciting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claire ask Tom to do?

2. What does Claire require the second house guest to do before she will let him enter the greenhouse?

3. What does the interior of the greenhouse symbolize?

4. What does Harry confide to the two house guests after Claire exits?

5. Who are Tom and Dick?

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