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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Claire becomes frustrated with Elizabeth, what does Claire want to do?
(a) Destroy "The Edge Vine."
(b) Destroy "The Edge of Death."
(c) Destroy "The Breath of Life."
(d) Destroy all plants in the greenhouse.

4. Why is there no heat in the house, even though the greenhouse is warm?
(a) The greenhouse retains heat better than the house does.
(b) Claire ordered the heat from the house to be diverted to the greenhouse.
(c) The furnace is broken.
(d) Harry ordered the heat from the house to be diverted to the greenhouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the first house guest uncomfortable?

2. Which character joins the first character after the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?

3. Who is the first character to come onstage in Act 1?

4. What does Claire require the second house guest to do before she will let him enter the greenhouse?

5. What does Harry confide to the two house guests after Claire exits?

(see the answer key)

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