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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Christine kill herself?

2. Lavinia threatens to do what if Orin doesn't listen to what she has to say about Christine and their father's death?

3. What does Brant learn from the drunk shantyman on the wharf?

4. Where do Orin and Lavinia go instead of visiting their cousins?

5. Orin angrily tells Lavinia, in the last play, that they have no right to what?

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 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 3

Why does Lavinia call the Mannon house the Temple of Hate and Death? What role does religion play in the plot, and most specifically, in the Mannon name itself?

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