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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tom do when Claire tries to embrace him?
(a) He returns the embrace.
(b) He kisses her.
(c) He asks her to marry him.
(d) He rejects her.

3. What does Harry realize after Claire begs another character to take her away?
(a) That she wants to go to India.
(b) That she still loves Harry.
(c) That she has had an intimate relationship with Anthony.
(d) That she has had an intimate relationship with Dick.

4. Which character's behavior represents the unrest of many women in the U.S. as the Women's Rights Movement begins to take root?
(a) Claire.
(b) Hattie.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Adelaide.

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 does not want Claire to spend time with her daughter.
(d) He no longer loves Claire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second sound the audience hears in Act 1?

2. Who first joins Claire and Tom in the tower room after she goes back upstairs?

3. Why has the extra guest been invited to dinner?

4. What does the second house guest do when he sees that no one can help him enter the greenhouse?

5. Which character has the last name of Edgeworthy?

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