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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the embrace, what does one character ask the other to do?
(a) Take her to India.
(b) Destroy the plants.
(c) Tell him she will get a divorce.
(d) Give her everything.

2. Adelaide has no time to do what?
(a) Take care of her children.
(b) Think of herself when she's among people.
(c) Fill a traditional female role.
(d) Take care of Claire's child.

3. Who apologizes to Tom in Act 2?
(a) The doctor.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Claire.
(d) Harry.

4. Who suggests that everyone should go downstairs to dinner?
(a) Harry.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Tom.
(d) Claire.

5. Who tells Claire about the dinner guest?
(a) Harry.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) No one.
(d) Tom.

6. Which character says he or she is perfectly happy with the role society has dictated?
(a) Harry.
(b) Adelaide.
(c) Claire.
(d) Tom.

7. How does Claire respond to Adelaide's accusations?
(a) With embarrassment.
(b) In an insolent manner.
(c) She faints.
(d) She cries.

8. What is the relationship between Claire and Adelaide?
(a) They are mother and daughter.
(b) They are rivals for Harry's love.
(c) They are niece and aunt.
(d) They are sisters.

9. Who is the only character onstage at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Adelaide.
(b) Claire.
(c) Harry.
(d) Anthony.

10. Which man loves Claire for her exterior self?
(a) Tom.
(b) Harry.
(c) The doctor.
(d) Dick.

11. Which is the best description of Harry?
(a) An artist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A poet.
(d) A pilot.

12. What does the setting in Act 2 symbolize?
(a) Closeness to God.
(b) A castle fit for a queen.
(c) Escape.
(d) A spiritual prison.

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

14. What is the doctor's area of practice?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Orthopedics.
(c) Numerology.
(d) Botany.

15. Which is the best description of the doctor?
(a) He rejects the belief that rest and isolation can help cure a hysterical patient.
(b) He rejects new Freudian theories.
(c) He specializes in botany.
(d) He is in love with Claire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character's behavior represents the unrest of many women in the U.S. as the Women's Rights Movement begins to take root?

2. Who does Claire beg to take her away from the house?

3. How does Elizabeth respond to Adelaide's accusations?

4. Harry is aware of an attraction between Claire and which character?

5. Why does Claire make the request of Harry?

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