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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Amos Ames' trade?
2. Christine tells Hazel that life twists people's feeling for each other until they do what to each other?
3. Peter thinks Captain Brant looks more like a ___________ than a ship captain.
4. What does Christine tell Brant he does with her share of the Mannon estate?
5. What does Christine call Orin when she first sees him on the day he returns from the war?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hazel say about the Mannon house as she and Peter prepare it for Lavinia and Orin's return from the islands?
2. What is remarkable about Lavinia's appearance in the third play?
3. What do Seth and the other men dare Abner Small to do at the beginning of the third play?
4. How does Peter react to seeing Lavinia when she returns from her trip to the East?
5. What does Seth tell Lavinia about the French-Canadian nurse that he believes is Brant's mother?
6. What does Christine accuse Lavinia of at the end of the first act of the second play?
7. What is Orin writing down in Play Three, Act Two?
8. What is Lavinia's fate?
9. Why does Christine compare the Mannon house to Abe Mannon?
10. What does Orin say about the Mannon house when he first sees it, after returning from the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss each of the following themes and how they resonate throughout the play: family duty; sins of the fathers; and the dark side of love.
Essay Topic 2
Elements of both the laws of man and nature are distorted and broken in this play. Discuss the symbolic and thematic implications of incest, murder and revenge in Mourning Becomes Electra.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the setting and stage direction in Mourning Becomes Electra are as significant to the plot as the characters, giving five specific examples.
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