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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the first thing the audience sees in Act 1?
(a) An unusual-looking plant.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A greenhouse.
(d) A blizzard.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Tom confide to Dick?
(a) He loves Claire's daughter.
(b) He loves Claire.
(c) He is divorcing Claire.
(d) He is having an affair.

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

11. 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."

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which plant is not thriving?

2. What is the second sound the audience hears in Act 1?

3. Who worries that the cold weather will have adverse effects on the plants?

4. Why does Claire caution Tom to be careful?

5. What does Tom advise Harry to do?

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