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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress is Christine wearing in Act Three of the first play?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

2. Ezra tells Orin that his heart condition is what?
(a) Non-existent.
(b) Acute.
(c) Not serious.
(d) Deadly.

3. What does Mrs. Hills say kills Ezra?
(a) Love.
(b) Fate.
(c) Evil.
(d) Booze.

4. Who does Lavinia vow to punish at the end of the first play?
(a) Abe.
(b) Christine.
(c) Brant.
(d) Ezra.

5. What does Captain Brant call all Mannons?
(a) Cowards.
(b) Saints.
(c) Murderers.
(d) Saviors.

6. What does Christine call Orin when she first sees him on the day he returns from the war?
(a) Her man.
(b) My baby.
(c) Lover.
(d) Pitiful.

7. Who does Seth think is David Mannon's son?
(a) Peter Niles.
(b) Orin Mannon.
(c) Amos Ames.
(d) Adam Brant.

8. How old is Captain Brant?
(a) 29.
(b) 44.
(c) 25.
(d) 36.

9. Christine and Brant plot to make Ezra's death look like a ___________.
(a) Heart attack.
(b) Accident.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Drowning.

10. What does Captain Brant tell Lavinia happens to his father?
(a) Dies in battle.
(b) Dies in a duel.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Dies of a broken heart.

11. Lavinia always reminds her mother of what?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her lost youth.
(d) Her honeymoon.

12. Which of the following Greek dramas is NOT source material for Mourning Becomes Electra?
(a) Electra by Sophocles.
(b) Oedipus the King.
(c) Electra by Euripides.
(d) The Orestia.

13. What is the setting of Play One, Act Four?
(a) The Mannon sitting room.
(b) Ezra's study.
(c) Outside the Mannon house.
(d) Ezra's bedroom.

14. What do Christine and Brant hear at the end of Act Two of Homecoming?
(a) Lavinia's voice.
(b) The cannon at the fort.
(c) Ezra's voice.
(d) Thunder.

15. What song is being sung as the play opens?
(a) Dixie.
(b) Swing low.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) Shenandoah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine accuse Lavinia of at the end of the first act of the second play?

2. Who does Seth want to tell Lavinia about when he sees her in the first scene of Homecoming?

3. As he is dying, Christine tells Lavinia that Ezra is ____________.

4. Where is Christine when she comes upon Peter and Lavinia in the first scene of the play?

5. Orin tells Lavinia that Ezra and the war teaches him what?

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