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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Play 3, Act 1, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As he is dying, Christine tells Lavinia that Ezra is ____________.
(a) Gone.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Dead.
(d) Hers.

2. Where does Ezra die?
(a) His study.
(b) Christine's arms.
(c) The front porch.
(d) His bed.

3. What song is being sung as the play opens?
(a) Dixie.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) Swing low.
(d) Shenandoah.

4. Orin tells his dead father that now that Ezra is gone, they can be what?
(a) Done.
(b) Friends.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Brothers.

5. Seth tells Peter and Hazel that the Mannon house is built with what?
(a) Greed.
(b) Murder.
(c) Love.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lavinia tells Orin that their mother's suicide is an act of what?

2. Where is Christine when she comes upon Peter and Lavinia in the first scene of the play?

3. What does Orin muse helps women to understand the brutality of war?

4. Who does Orin think is waiting for him in the study, when he returns from his long trip with Lavinia?

5. How much time passes by the beginning of the third play?

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