The Verge Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Verge Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which plant is not thriving?
(a) "The Breath of Life."
(b) "The Edge Vine."
(c) "The Breath of Death."
(d) "The Life Vine."

3. What does the second house guest bring from the house?
(a) Salt.
(b) Pepper.
(c) A gun.
(d) Eggs.

4. What are Anthony's specific instructions?
(a) Hide the special plant from Harry.
(b) Kill the special plant.
(c) Keep the special plant alive at all costs.
(d) Keep salt away from the special plant.

5. What does the first character do after coming onstage?
(a) Answer a telephone.
(b) Lock the greenhouse door.
(c) Prepare breakfast.
(d) Press a buzzer.

6. Who rescues Elizabeth from being struck?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Dick.
(c) Tom.
(d) Harry.

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

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

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

10. What is the special plant in the greenhouse called?
(a) "The Edge of Death"
(b) "The Edge Vine."
(c) "The Breath Vine."
(d) "The Breath of Life."

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

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

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

14. What is the one item that stands out in the greenhouse?
(a) A huge plant, clinging to the back wall.
(b) A gun.
(c) A dead plant.
(d) A broken window.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only character onstage when the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?

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

3. What does Tom advise Harry to do?

4. Who is Elizabeth?

5. Which is the best description of Anthony?

(see the answer keys)

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