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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. What does the first character do after coming onstage?
(a) Answer a telephone.
(b) Prepare breakfast.
(c) Lock the greenhouse door.
(d) Press a buzzer.

2. What does Claire push off the table?
(a) Salt.
(b) Pepper.
(c) An egg.
(d) A plant.

3. What does Claire say after Elizabeth exits?
(a) Darkness has descended.
(b) The plants must be destroyed.
(c) She does not love Elizabeth.
(d) She feels light now.

4. What does the blizzard symbolize?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Outside forces.
(c) Ideas and creativity.
(d) Death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the beam of light originate?

2. Why is Claire astonished when she enters the greenhouse during the second part of Act 1?

3. Who tries to get Claire to come to the phone upon Elizabeth's arrival?

4. What does Claire ask Tom to do?

5. What does the second house guest have in his hand when he first arrives?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following Tom's rejection of her advances in the tower room, what does Claire do?

2. Why is Harry angry the first time he appears onstage?

3. The unusual, large, untamed, twisted plants in the greenhouse symbolize what movement in the early twentieth century?

4. What is the connection between Claire and Elizabeth?

5. At the end of Act 2, what does Claire ask of Dick while they embrace?

6. Why is Claire frustrated by her inability to explain the importance of her plants?

7. Describe the reaction of Claire when Anthony brings the blooming plant into the room, as contrasted with the reactions of the men?

8. Describe the setting of Act 2.

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

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

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