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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 Tom advise Harry to do?
(a) Find out who Claire's lover is.
(b) Divorce Claire since he no longer loves her.
(c) Let Claire go on as she is.
(d) Destroy the plants.

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

3. What is the special plant about to do?
(a) Die.
(b) Be transplanted.
(c) Go to seed.
(d) Flower.

4. Why is the first house guest uncomfortable?
(a) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the blizzard.
(b) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the dying plant.
(c) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing salt.
(d) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing pepper.

5. What does Harry confide to the two house guests after Claire exits?
(a) He hopes to get advice from them regarding Claire.
(b) He believes Claire is having an affair.
(c) He no longer loves Claire.
(d) He does not want Claire to spend time with her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claire try to explain to the men over breakfast?

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

3. What are Anthony's specific instructions?

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

5. Why didn't Anthony answer the buzz from Harry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harry react to Claire's actions, yelling to Tom for rescue?

2. What does Claire repeatedly try to explain to everyone regarding her plants?

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

4. When Tom realizes the greenhouse door is locked, what does he do?

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

6. What does Anthony offer to do when he sees that Claire has strangled Tom?

7. Describe what the audience hears when the curtain first opens in Act 1.

8. What is the profession of Claire's lover, Tom? How is his profession indicative of his character?

9. What character is onstage alone at the beginning of Act 2, and which two characters join the first character?

10. Claire agrees to unlock the door for Tom under what condition?

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