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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. Where does Act 3 take place?

2. What does Evans' mother want Nina to do?

3. How long does Evans say he and Nina have been sleeping separately in Act 4?

4. What is Evans' first name?

5. What does Nina say she feels for Evans in Act 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nina feel about her family in Act 7? How does she feel about her life and about Darrell?

2. What does Gordon do with Darrell's birthday present? Why?

3. What does Marsden ask Darrell about regarding his mother in Act 4? What is his response?

4. Who does Darrell talk about in Act 8? Why does this upset Nina?

5. What does Nina say to her father after his confession?

6. What does Nina tease Marsden about in Act 6 that makes him angry? How does he react?

7. What is Nina jealous of in Act 8? Who knows about this?

8. What does Nina think about doing in the end of Act 9? What are her feelings?

9. What does Darrell say regarding romanticism in Act 5?

10. What does Mrs. Evans say about Nina leaving Evans in Act 3? How does Nina respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the theme of "Internal Conflict." How is this manifested in Strange Interlude? How does O'Neill express this through stream-of-consciousness style of writing?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the plot of Strange Interlude. Include the definitions for action, objective, rising action, climax, and falling action as well as citing where these occur in the text.

Essay Topic 3

What does "Oedipal Complex" mean? How does this theory play out thematically in Strange Interlude? Who most embodies this term?

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