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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the random growth patterns of the plants represent?
(a) Outside forces.
(b) Ideas and creativity.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Death.
2. Who worries that the cold weather will have adverse effects on the plants?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Anthony and Harry.
(c) Harry.
(d) Anthony.
3. 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 dying plant.
(c) Worries about the state of the greenhouse due to the blizzard.
(d) Worries about the state of the household due to the missing salt.
4. Who is the first house guest to arrive at the greenhouse?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Tom.
(c) Dick.
(d) Hattie.
5. Who is the only character onstage when the curtain opens for the second time in Act 1?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Harry.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Claire.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which is the best description of Anthony?
2. Who brings Elizabeth to the greenhouse?
3. What is Elizabeth's philosophy regarding new plant varieties?
4. Which plant is not thriving?
5. Why didn't Anthony answer the buzz from Harry?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Harry angry the first time he appears onstage?
2. What is the symbolic meaning of "The Breath of Life" in this play?
3. What does Anthony offer to do when he sees that Claire has strangled Tom?
4. Anthony explains to Harry that Claire gave him what two orders?
5. At the end of the play, Claire has lapsed into madness. Why does the playwright choose to end with Claire singing the verses to a religious hymn?
6. What is the significance of the names of the three men in this play who have been Claire's love interests?
7. At the beginning of Act 3, what does Hattie urgently tell Anthony?
8. What does Claire do as a result of her anger and disillusionment with Tom?
9. What is the symbolism of the tower room?
10. Describe what the audience sees when the curtain first opens in Act 1.
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