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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Tom intend to go?
(a) Indonesia.
(b) Israel.
(c) Iceland.
(d) India.

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Claire astonished when she enters the greenhouse during the second part of Act 1?
(a) Because a plant is dying.
(b) Because Harry invited more people to intrude upon the greenhouse.
(c) Because the greenhouse is too hot.
(d) Because the special plant is in plain sight.

9. Which is the best description of Hattie?
(a) Wife of Harry.
(b) A house guest.
(c) A gardener.
(d) A maid.

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

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

12. What does Harry confide to the two house guests after Claire exits?
(a) He believes Claire is having an affair.
(b) He does not want Claire to spend time with her daughter.
(c) He no longer loves Claire.
(d) He hopes to get advice from them regarding Claire.

13. What does Claire say after Elizabeth exits?
(a) She does not love Elizabeth.
(b) The plants must be destroyed.
(c) Darkness has descended.
(d) She feels light now.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to get Claire to come to the phone upon Elizabeth's arrival?

2. Which is the best description of Claire and Elizabeth's reunion?

3. Who is Elizabeth?

4. What does Claire push off the table?

5. What does the interior of the greenhouse symbolize?

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