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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Elizabeth's philosophy regarding new plant varieties?
(a) New plants are always exciting.
(b) Plants should never be hybridized.
(c) Anything new should be better.
(d) She likes only roses.

2. Which is the best description of Claire and Elizabeth's reunion?
(a) They tend plants together.
(b) They embrace awkwardly.
(c) They laugh together at a private joke.
(d) They stay on opposite sides of the room.

3. Claire tries to strike Elizabeth with what?
(a) A salt shaker.
(b) "The Edge Vine."
(c) A flowerpot.
(d) A trowel.

4. Which is the best description of Anthony?
(a) A middle-aged man.
(b) A house guest.
(c) A young man.
(d) Husband of Claire.

5. What is the second sound the audience hears in Act 1?
(a) A buzzer.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Wind.
(d) A conversation.

6. In the second part of Act 1, who enters after Harry exits?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Hattie.
(c) Claire.
(d) Dick.

7. Who is the second house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?
(a) Tom.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Harry.
(d) Dick.

8. What are Anthony's specific instructions?
(a) Keep salt away from the special plant.
(b) Keep the special plant alive at all costs.
(c) Hide the special plant from Harry.
(d) Kill the special plant.

9. 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.

10. Which plant is not thriving?
(a) "The Life Vine."
(b) "The Breath of Death."
(c) "The Breath of Life."
(d) "The Edge Vine."

11. What does Harry help Hattie to do when he returns during the second part of Act 1?
(a) Tend to the plants.
(b) Greet the houseguests.
(c) Prepare breakfast.
(d) Lock the greenhouse door.

12. Why didn't Anthony answer the buzz from Harry?
(a) Hattie answered the buzz.
(b) Anthony didn't hear the buzzer.
(c) Harry didn't buzz Anthony.
(d) Claire had instructed Anthony to answer no buzz but hers.

13. What is the one item that stands out in the greenhouse?
(a) A dead plant.
(b) A broken window.
(c) A huge plant, clinging to the back wall.
(d) A gun.

14. What is the special plant about to do?
(a) Go to seed.
(b) Die.
(c) Flower.
(d) Be transplanted.

15. Who requested that breakfast be served in the greenhouse?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Harry.
(c) Hattie.
(d) Claire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only character onstage when the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?

2. How does Anthony try to distract Claire from worrying about the plant that is not thriving?

3. Who brings Elizabeth to the greenhouse?

4. Who is the first house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?

5. What does the second house guest bring from the house?

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