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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the only character onstage when the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?
(a) Anthony.
(b) Claire.
(c) Harry.
(d) Hattie.

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

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

5. Which is the best description of Hattie?
(a) Wife of Harry.
(b) A maid.
(c) A house guest.
(d) A gardener.

6. Where does Tom intend to go?
(a) India.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) Israel.
(d) Iceland.

7. 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 greenhouse due to the blizzard.
(c) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing salt.
(d) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the dying plant.

8. From where does the beam of light originate?
(a) A trap door in the floor.
(b) From the left.
(c) From a plant.
(d) Above.

9. What does the blizzard symbolize?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Ideas and creativity.
(c) Death.
(d) Outside forces.

10. What does Claire try to explain to the men over breakfast?
(a) Why she doesn't spend more time with her daughter.
(b) Why she is unhappy in her marriage.
(c) The joy of letting things grow without restriction.
(d) Why there is no heat in the house.

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

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

13. What does Claire require the second house guest to do before she will let him enter the greenhouse?
(a) Retrieve salt from the house.
(b) Retrieve pepper from the house.
(c) Kiss her.
(d) Put away his gun.

14. What does Claire try to explain to the first house guest?
(a) The significance of the greenhouse plants.
(b) The effects of the blizzard on the greenhouse.
(c) Why the pepper is missing.
(d) Why the salt is missing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one item that stands out in the greenhouse?

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

3. What does Tom advise Harry to do?

4. What does the interior of the greenhouse symbolize?

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

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