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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Powers claim is the reason for Claypoole's desire to bring him down?
(a) He wants Powers to move up.
(b) He wants Powers to resign.
(c) He wants Powers to move away.
(d) He wants Powers' office.

2. What is Rosemary?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A child.

3. What topic do Kreton and the cat discuss at the beginning of Act II?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Cat naps.
(c) Sunshine.
(d) Mice.

4. What does Kreton suggest second to begin his plan to take over the world?
(a) Flying over the white house.
(b) Drying up small oceans.
(c) Tricks like lifting a vase.
(d) Doing something to the moon.

5. What did Kreton expect everyone to talk about?
(a) War, love, and wealth.
(b) Peace and harmony.
(c) Battles, poets, and other events.
(d) Poverty and cruelty.

6. What does Kreton tell Ellen his race does not do?
(a) Cry.
(b) Get angry.
(c) Eat.
(d) Laugh.

7. How much of his brain does Kreton claim to use?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 100 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

8. What does Kreton want to watch Ellen do?
(a) Make love to a woman.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Make love to a man.
(d) Read a book.

9. Why does Kreton claim his race is perfect?
(a) They have no morals.
(b) They have no children.
(c) They have no soul.
(d) They have no passion.

10. What does Kreton claim this same trait means for the race?
(a) They have become unintelligent.
(b) They have become old.
(c) They have become emotionally unstable.
(d) They have become boring.

11. What does Kreton assume the couple was going to do with the telephone books?
(a) Rip them for fire.
(b) Use them as stools to break into windows.
(c) Look up telephone numbers.
(d) Use them to come up with false names.

12. How does Kreton show his mental powers to Ellen?
(a) He lifts a vase with his mind.
(b) He lifts the television with his mind.
(c) He lifts a mouse with his mind.
(d) He lifts the cat with his mind.

13. What does Kreton believe is a symbol for sex?
(a) The lion.
(b) The snake.
(c) The rose.
(d) The telephone.

14. Who is the aide thinking about when Kreton broadcasts his thoughts?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Kreton.
(c) Reba.
(d) Conrad.

15. Who does Powers note would not sit still for Kreton's overthrow of the world?
(a) Citizens.
(b) The President.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two elements does Kreton link together as he tries to entice Conrad to war?

2. What does Ellen announce she will do at the end of the Act, in regard to Conrad?

3. Why does Ellen claim she can't marry Conrad?

4. What does Conrad claim Roger attempted to do to him while he slept?

5. What has Kreton's race given up, along with the appendix?

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