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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Elizabeth respond to Adelaide's accusations?
(a) She defends Claire.
(b) She cries.
(c) She is not present during the accusations.
(d) She faints.

2. What is the relationship between Claire and Adelaide?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They are niece and aunt.
(c) They are mother and daughter.
(d) They are rivals for Harry's love.

3. Who will be a guest at dinner?
(a) A minister.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A botanist.
(d) A divorce attorney.

4. Who apologizes to Tom in Act 2?
(a) Claire.
(b) Harry.
(c) Adelaide.
(d) The doctor.

5. Who calls Claire unnatural?
(a) Tom.
(b) The doctor.
(c) Adelaide.
(d) Elizabeth.

6. What does Claire ask Tom to do in Act 2?
(a) Be her partner so they can search for meaning together.
(b) Go to India.
(c) Destroy the greenhouse.
(d) Apologize to Harry.

7. What does Tom do when Claire tries to embrace him?
(a) He kisses her.
(b) He rejects her.
(c) He returns the embrace.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

8. Who first joins Claire and Tom in the tower room after she goes back upstairs?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Dick.
(c) Harry.
(d) The doctor.

9. Which is the best description of Dick?
(a) A poet who writes sonnets.
(b) An artist who produces realistic paintings.
(c) A gardener who loves Claire's plants.
(d) An artist who produces abstract drawings.

10. Who does Claire beg to take her away from the house?
(a) The doctor.
(b) Tom.
(c) Harry.
(d) Dick.

11. From what does Claire say she needs to be rescued?
(a) Being trapped in a tower room.
(b) Being trapped in a house with no heat.
(c) Adelaide's attacks on her character and ways of thinking.
(d) Being forced to work long hours in the greenhouse.

12. Which character has the last name of Edgeworthy?
(a) Tom.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Harry.
(d) Dick.

13. Which two characters embrace at the end of Act 2?
(a) Harry and Claire.
(b) Adelaide and Harry.
(c) Claire and Tom.
(d) Claire and Dick.

14. What is Tom's condition when he arrives in the tower room?
(a) He is hesitant and does not enter the room.
(b) He is out of breath.
(c) He is laughing.
(d) He is angry, pointing a gun at the others.

15. Who is the only character onstage at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Claire.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Harry.
(d) Adelaide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tom respond to the call for help?

2. Why is Tom the only one who truly loves Claire?

3. Which character's behavior represents the unrest of many women in the U.S. as the Women's Rights Movement begins to take root?

4. How does Claire respond to Adelaide's accusations?

5. Adelaide has no time to do what?

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