View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Retrieve pepper from the house.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Put away his gun.

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

6. What does Claire ask Tom to do?
(a) Say something pleasant about God.
(b) Say something pleasant about the plants.
(c) Say something evil about the plants.
(d) Say something evil about God.

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

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

9. Who requested that breakfast be served in the greenhouse?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Claire.
(c) Harry.
(d) Anthony.

10. What does the interior of the greenhouse symbolize?
(a) Harry and Claire's relationship.
(b) The interior of Claire's heart.
(c) Tom and Claire's relationship.
(d) The interior of the house.

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

12. What does Claire want Elizabeth to do regarding the plants?
(a) Wait until tomorrow to see what will happen.
(b) Not get involved.
(c) Tend all of the plants.
(d) Tend only the special plant.

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

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

15. Which is the best description of Anthony?
(a) A middle-aged man.
(b) A house guest.
(c) Husband of Claire.
(d) A young man.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the curtain opens for a second time in Act 1, what is the scene?

2. Why can't the second house guest enter the greenhouse?

3. What is Elizabeth's philosophy regarding new plant varieties?

4. Which character joins the first character after the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?

5. Where does Tom intend to go?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 499 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample