QUIZ – THE EFFECT | English Theatre Frankfurt

1. Choose the correct names of the characters.

Connie, Tristan, Lisa, Toby

Connie, Tristan, Lorna, Toby

Caroline, Tristan, Lorna, Toby

Connie, Kilian, Lorna, Toby

2. What does Tristan want to use the money for after the trial?

He wants to travel

He wants to buy a car

He wants to impress his girlfriend

He wants to donate it to a child care organization

3. What does Tristan strike as peculiar about Connie at the beginning?

She has his mother´s name.

Her beautiful eyes.

Her funny accent

They have the same birthday

4. What is Connie´s boyfriend´s profession?

He is a teacher

He is a handyman

He is a doctor

He is a gardener

5. Which reason does Connie give for the success of her dry cleaning company?

wealthy partner

best equipment in town

good business plan

Lack of competition

6. What was the trick Tristan showed Connie while they were hiding in the mental asylum?

He can juggle

He can do magic tricks

He dances

He can blow rings in the air with his cigarette smoke

7. Which statement describes Dr. Lorna James´ and Dr. Toby Sealey´s relationship best?

They are colleagues with different professional beliefs and were lovers once.

They are colleagues and rivals because of their different professional beliefs.

They test each other on practitioner bias.

They are lovers.

8. Why does Connie slip Tristan her pill?

She does not want to take hers herself and does not know of a better way to get rid of it.

She thinks that Tristan has been on a placebo all this time.

She wants to kill Tristan with an overdose.

It happens by accident.

9. What happens at the end of the play?

Connie and Tristan as well as Lorna and Toby go on a trip together and live happily ever after.

Connie falls into a depression and leaves Tristan to his fate, Lorna finally decides to take the anti depressants.

Tristan loses his short time memory and Lorna takes care of him because she feels guilty.

Connie stays with Tristan and takes care of him, Toby takes care of Lorna who falls into a depression, feeling guilty for what has happened to Tristan.

10. Which statement describes the play´s main conflict best?

Depression cannot be cured.

In this play love is always one-sided

The anti depressant heightens aggression, which is why Connie and Tristan fight in spite of their love for each other.

No one knows whether the love between Tristan and Connie is real or drug-induced because the anti depressants heighten the dopamine levels and create a similar state of mind as falling in love does.