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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tries to get Claire to come to the phone upon Elizabeth's arrival?
(a) Harry.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Tom.
(d) Dick.

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

4. Who is Elizabeth?
(a) Harry and Claire's daughter.
(b) Claire's daughter from a previous marriage.
(c) Claire's sister.
(d) Harry's daughter from a previous marriage.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the second sound the audience hears in Act 1?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Wind.
(c) A conversation.
(d) A buzzer.

11. What does Harry help Hattie to do when he returns during the second part of Act 1?
(a) Tend to the plants.
(b) Prepare breakfast.
(c) Greet the houseguests.
(d) Lock the greenhouse door.

12. What does the second house guest have in his hand when he first arrives?
(a) Supplies for breakfast.
(b) A salt shaker.
(c) A gun.
(d) A pepper shaker.

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

14. 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) Claire ordered the heat from the house to be diverted to the greenhouse.
(d) The greenhouse retains heat better than the house does.

15. Who are Tom and Dick?
(a) House guests.
(b) Gardeners.
(c) Brothers of Anthony.
(d) Brothers of Harry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first character do after coming onstage?

2. Who is the first house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?

3. What does Claire say after Elizabeth exits?

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

5. What is the special plant about to do?

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