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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long are Ezra and Christine married?
(a) 27 years.
(b) 23 years.
(c) 16 years.
(d) 30 years.

2. What do Christine and Brant hear at the end of Act Two of Homecoming?
(a) The cannon at the fort.
(b) Ezra's voice.
(c) Thunder.
(d) Lavinia's voice.

3. What is the name of Louisa Ames' cousin?
(a) Minnie.
(b) May.
(c) Melissa.
(d) Mary.

4. What does Ezra tell Christine that house and his bed are waiting for?
(a) Her love.
(b) Daybreak.
(c) Nightfall.
(d) His death.

5. What is the setting of the first act of the second play?
(a) The Mannon sitting room.
(b) Ezra's study.
(c) The wharf.
(d) The exterior of the Mannon house at night.

6. How old is Captain Brant?
(a) 44.
(b) 25.
(c) 36.
(d) 29.

7. Ezra tells Christine there is always ___________ between them.
(a) A great love.
(b) A wall.
(c) An agreement.
(d) A daughter.

8. Who is Everett Hills?
(a) The carpenter.
(b) The minister.
(c) The mayor.
(d) The doctor.

9. What is the name of the main character speaking in the first scene of Homecoming?
(a) Abe.
(b) Orin.
(c) Seth.
(d) Ezra.

10. What does Captain Brant call all Mannons?
(a) Cowards.
(b) Murderers.
(c) Saviors.
(d) Saints.

11. Who does Seth think is David Mannon's son?
(a) Orin Mannon.
(b) Amos Ames.
(c) Adam Brant.
(d) Peter Niles.

12. What is the title of the second play?
(a) The Homecoming.
(b) The House.
(c) The Hunted.
(d) The Haunted.

13. Peter thinks Captain Brant looks more like a ___________ than a ship captain.
(a) Poet.
(b) Fool.
(c) Peddler.
(d) Gardener.

14. What year is the first production of Mourning Becomes Electra?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1931.

15. Where is Christine originally from?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Norfolk.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Play One, Act Four?

2. How many years is Seth with the Mannon family?

3. Lavinia writes her father a letter about whom?

4. What is the setting of the Act Three of Homecoming?

5. Where does Ezra die?

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