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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who raised Elizabeth?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Claire.
(c) Harry.
(d) Tom.

2. Why is the setting in Act 2's symbolism ironic?
(a) The household has no queen.
(b) The characters are not religious.
(c) The prisoner has put herself in the prison.
(d) The lock on the door is broken.

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

4. Which is the best description of Tom?
(a) A poet.
(b) A pilot.
(c) A doctor.
(d) An artist.

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

6. Who suggests that everyone should go downstairs to dinner?
(a) Harry.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Claire.
(d) Tom.

7. Who enters the room after the doctor gives his advice?
(a) Tom.
(b) Dick.
(c) Adelaide.
(d) Claire.

8. Why does Adelaide chastise Claire?
(a) For not doing a better job taking care of the greenhouse plants.
(b) For not leaving Harry.
(c) For not being affectionate to her daughter.
(d) For not letting Adelaide raise Elizabeth.

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

10. What does the setting in Act 2 symbolize?
(a) A castle fit for a queen.
(b) A spiritual prison.
(c) Escape.
(d) Closeness to God.

11. What is the doctor's area of practice?
(a) Numerology.
(b) Botany.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Orthopedics.

12. Why has the extra guest been invited to dinner?
(a) To observe Claire for signs of infidelity.
(b) To assist Claire in her spiritual quest.
(c) To observe Claire for signs of insanity.
(d) To assist Claire with her plants.

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

14. What is the foundation of Claire's emotional state?
(a) She wants to spend more time with Adelaide.
(b) She wants to spend more time with Elizabeth.
(c) She needs something to hope for beyond what others are able to give.
(d) She has trouble sleeping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Adelaide has no time to do what?

2. What is the doctor's last name?

3. Who tells Claire about the dinner guest?

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

5. Who first joins Claire and Tom in the tower room after she goes back upstairs?

(see the answer keys)

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