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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claire ask Harry to do when she goes downstairs?
(a) Play the music louder.
(b) Turn off the Victrola.
(c) Return to the tower room.
(d) Invite the doctor to dinner.

2. Which best describes the number of plants in the greenhouse?
(a) Plants are placed on every available shelf and nook.
(b) There are two living plants and one dead plant.
(c) There are three plants.
(d) There are two plants.

3. Why does Adelaide chastise Claire?
(a) For not letting Adelaide raise Elizabeth.
(b) For not being affectionate to her daughter.
(c) For not doing a better job taking care of the greenhouse plants.
(d) For not leaving Harry.

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

5. What do the random growth patterns of the plants represent?
(a) Ideas and creativity.
(b) Outside forces.
(c) Death.
(d) Chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom advise Harry to do?

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

3. Who joins Claire, Tom, and the third character in the tower?

4. When Claire and Tom are alone in the tower, what does Claire admit?

5. Who rescues Elizabeth from being struck?

(see the answer key)

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