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

2. What is the name of Captain Brant's mother?
(a) Marie Brantome.
(b) Marie Barcelona.
(c) Maria Brantoine.
(d) Maria Brantrome.

3. What does the doctor call Ezra's heart condition?
(a) Palpatations.
(b) Angina.
(c) Acute.
(d) Bad luck.

4. Orin tells Lavinia that Ezra and the war teaches him what?
(a) To ignore death.
(b) To runaway.
(c) To love Christine.
(d) To be brave.

5. Lavinia thinks of Peter as a _________.
(a) Hero.
(b) Lover.
(c) Brother.
(d) Friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the members of the "chorus" in the first scene of the play?

2. What is the title of the second play?

3. What is Brant's mother's position in the Mannon household?

4. Who jokes that Ezra probably dies from making love to Christine?

5. What does Christine tell Brant he does with her share of the Mannon estate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orin say about the war that shocks Christine, Hazel and Peter?

2. How does Lavinia begin to change Orin's mind about their mother's innocence?

3. How does Christine learn of Brant's murder?

4. What is Christine's reaction when Lavinia tells her the war is over soon?

5. What does Orin say about the Mannon house when he first sees it, after returning from the war?

6. Who is Josiah Borden?

7. What is Lavinia's fate?

8. What does Seth tell Lavinia about the French-Canadian nurse that he believes is Brant's mother?

9. What is Ezra's appearance like on the night he returns from the war?

10. How does Peter react to seeing Lavinia when she returns from her trip to the East?

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