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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Powers fear would be the result of leaked information about the alien?
(a) A mass illusion.
(b) An international pastime.
(c) A parade.
(d) An international panic.

2. What does Kreton state his species doesn't do that humans do that he gives as a reason for not being able to explain his origins?
(a) Humans eat.
(b) Humans talk.
(c) Humans sleep.
(d) Humans die.

3. Who joins in with Kreton as he sings at the end of Act II?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Reba.
(c) Powers.
(d) Roger.

4. What does Kreton put around the ship?
(a) A ring of fire.
(b) A moat.
(c) An electric fence.
(d) An invisible wall.

5. In what year was Kreton expecting to land?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1661.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the aide attempt to do in terms of Ellen?

2. What does Powers admit he wanted to be, before going upstairs to pass out?

3. What does Reba know Roger plans to ask Kreton to do?

4. At the end of the play, what is Conrad noting is the "coming thing?"

5. What will the military not do in response to information that Kreton is a mammal?

(see the answer key)

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