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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. Ezra tells Christine there is always ___________ between them.

2. What does Ezra beg Christine to give him as he is dying?

3. Who does Lavinia say that Captain Brant is using for revenge?

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

5. Lavinia writes her father a letter about whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Orin mean when he tells her that he can forgive her for anything, except being with Brant?

2. What significant information does Captain Brant learn from the drunken sailor near his ship?

3. What do Seth and the other men dare Abner Small to do at the beginning of the third play?

4. What plans do Christine and Brant make when she comes to see him on his ship?

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

6. How does the war change Ezra's view about death?

7. What does Christine say when Orin confronts her about Captain Brant, the day he returns from the war?

8. What does Hazel tell Lavinia in the last act of the play?

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

10. Describe the Mannon mansion in the opening scene of the play.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use throughout the play of the literary components of foreshadowing, irony and metaphor.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the setting and stage direction in Mourning Becomes Electra are as significant to the plot as the characters, giving five specific examples.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the symbolic significance of each of the following: The Mannon house; the song "Shenandoah"; the family resemblances and the islands.

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