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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the relationship between Harry and Claire?
(a) Brother and sister.
(b) Employer and maid.
(c) Gardener and employer.
(d) Husband and wife.

3. Why didn't Anthony answer the buzz from Harry?
(a) Hattie answered the buzz.
(b) Anthony didn't hear the buzzer.
(c) Harry didn't buzz Anthony.
(d) Claire had instructed Anthony to answer no buzz but hers.

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

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

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

7. In the second part of Act 1, who enters after Harry exits?
(a) Dick.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Hattie.
(d) Claire.

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

9. 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 out the greenhouse door.
(c) Pretends to shoot himself.
(d) Drops the breakfast supplies.

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

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

12. Which best describes the number of plants in the greenhouse?
(a) There are two living plants and one dead plant.
(b) There are three plants.
(c) There are two plants.
(d) Plants are placed on every available shelf and nook.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From where does the beam of light originate?

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

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

5. What are Anthony's specific instructions?

(see the answer keys)

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