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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Orin angrily tells Lavinia, in the last play, that they have no right to what?
(a) Life.
(b) Justice.
(c) Futures.
(d) Love.

2. Orin tells his mother that he feels the presence of __________ in the house.
(a) Evil.
(b) Love.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Abe.

3. How much time passes by the beginning of the third play?
(a) Three days.
(b) One year.
(c) Two days.
(d) One month.

4. What does Seth bet Abner to stay the night in the Mannon house?
(a) The town.
(b) Ten dollars and a jug of liquor.
(c) A jug of rum.
(d) A million dollars.

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

6. Who does Lavinia tell Orin forgets them at the end of the first scene in Play Three, Act One?
(a) Brant and Christine.
(b) Hazel and Peter.
(c) Happiness.
(d) The dead.

7. Where do Brant and Christine plan to sail to on the ship Atlantis?
(a) Japan.
(b) China.
(c) South Seas.
(d) Australia.

8. What is the name of the cousins Lavinia and Orin are supposed to be visiting?
(a) Bradleys.
(b) Brantwells.
(c) Bradfords.
(d) Blackwells.

9. The stage directions describe Ezra's dead face as looking like __________.
(a) A monster.
(b) Abe's.
(c) Orin's.
(d) A statue.

10. What do Lavinia and Orin do after Brant is shot?
(a) Throw his body in the sea.
(b) Make it look like a robbery.
(c) Frame the shantyman.
(d) Call the police.

11. Where do Orin and Lavinia go instead of visiting their cousins?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) The islands.
(d) Portsmouth.

12. Orin tells Christine at the end of the Play Two, Act Three that she is his what?
(a) Savior.
(b) Blessed island.
(c) Lost island.
(d) Dead.

13. What song is the chantyman singing at the beginning of Play Two, Act Four?
(a) Swing Low.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) Shenandoah.
(d) Moon River.

14. Seth tells Hazel he lets Abner Small in the house to stop the __________.
(a) Voices.
(b) Rats.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Gossip.

15. What does Orin tell his mother that Brant does to her to get her to murder Ezra?
(a) Drug.
(b) Hypnotize.
(c) Beg.
(d) Brainwash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lavinia show Orin as proof that Christine is a murderer?

2. Christine tells Orin that Lavinia becomes _________ since he is gone.

3. What does Orin call Lavinia in Act Two of Play Three?

4. Hazel and Peter get a telegram from Lavinia and Orin, sent from where?

5. What is the name of the man that Christine convinces Orin she meets in New York, rather than Brant?

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