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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Evans' tell Nina about the Evans family?
(a) It has a history of insanity.
(b) It has a history of epilepsy.
(c) It is associated with crime.
(d) It is powerful.

2. Why does Nina say she must go away in Act 1?
(a) To pay her duty to Gordon.
(b) To make money for the family.
(c) To break a curse.
(d) To find a husband.

3. Who speaks first in soliloquy in Part 1, Act 1 (the beginning of the play)?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Nina.
(d) Evans.

4. Why does Leeds say he hated Gordon?
(a) He was jealous for Nina's love.
(b) He had blackmailed him.
(c) He killed his wife.
(d) He stole money from him.

5. How much time has passed between Acts 2 and 3?
(a) About two years.
(b) One decade.
(c) One month.
(d) About seven months.

6. Who is sitting in the room at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Evans.
(d) Nina.

7. How much time passes between Acts 3 and 4?
(a) Seven months.
(b) Four months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Nine months.

8. What about Nina causes concern for her father in Part 1, Act 1?
(a) Her refusal to wed.
(b) Her erratic behavior.
(c) Her promiscuity.
(d) Her spending of money.

9. How many letters did Nina write to Marsden while she was gone from Act 1 to Act 2?
(a) Five.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

10. Who does Nina say it seemed as if might have been the real father of her first baby?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Evans.
(c) Marsden.
(d) Darrell.

11. What does Nina call Marsden at the end of Act 2?
(a) Uncle.
(b) James.
(c) William.
(d) Father.

12. Where does Act 2 take place?
(a) Leeds' study.
(b) Marsden's study.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The yacht.

13. Where has Marsden been before the play begins?
(a) Europe.
(b) South America.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Japan.

14. What does Marsden ask Darrell about?
(a) His will.
(b) His inheritance.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

15. Where does Part 1, Act 1 take place?
(a) Marsden's study.
(b) Leeds' study.
(c) Nina's bedroom.
(d) Leeds' kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leeds admit to Nina that he told Gordon in Act 1?

2. Whom has Nina married in Act 3?

3. Who does Mrs. Evans tell Nina she won't see again?

4. When does Nina announce that she is leaving in Part 1, Act 1?

5. Who says, "I used to wish I'd gone out deliberate in our first year, without my husband knowing, and picked a man, a healthy male to breed by, same's we do with stock, to give the man I loved a healthy child"?

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