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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which is the best description of Claire and Elizabeth's reunion?
(a) They embrace awkwardly.
(b) They stay on opposite sides of the room.
(c) They laugh together at a private joke.
(d) They tend plants together.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Elizabeth?

2. What is the first thing the audience sees in Act 1?

3. What does Claire ask Tom to do?

4. Who is the first character to come onstage in Act 1?

5. What are Anthony's specific instructions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens after Dick asks Claire about her plants.

2. After being rejected by Tom and hearing the doctor's diagnosis, who does Claire turn to next for comfort?

3. Claire's internal struggle indicates her desire for what?

4. When Claire and Tom are alone in the tower room, what does Claire admit to Tom, and what is his response?

5. What does Tom want to tell Claire early in Act 3?

6. At the beginning of Act 3, what does Hattie urgently tell Anthony?

7. How does Claire respond to Adelaide's criticisms?

8. Adelaide says that she goes about in the world, free, busy, and happy, because among people she has no time to think of herself. Why is this statement distasteful to Claire?

9. Following the exchanges between Claire, Adelaide, and Harry, what does Claire do and how do other characters respond?

10. Why is Claire angry about Tom's declaration?

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