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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orin tell Lavinia killing in the war is like?
(a) Finding freedom.
(b) Killing the same man twice.
(c) Making love.
(d) Killing his soul.

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

3. Orin tells Lavinia in the third act of Play Two that he never forgets what?
(a) The past.
(b) Hazel's love.
(c) The war.
(d) Christine's hair.

4. Orin tells a shocked Lavinia that she must learn to _________ death.
(a) Mock.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Embrace.
(d) Love.

5. Where does Orin tell Christine they can go now that Brant is dead?
(a) Home.
(b) South Seas.
(c) Blessed islands.
(d) China.

6. Looking down on the action of Play Two, Act Two is a portrait of a soldier from ____________ army.
(a) Washington's.
(b) Grant's.
(c) King George's.
(d) Lee's.

7. What does Brant learn from the drunk shantyman on the wharf?
(a) The Mannons are broke.
(b) Christine is coming.
(c) Orin is home from war.
(d) Ezra is dead.

8. 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.

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

10. What does Lavinia force Orin to say doesn't exist at the beginning of the third play?
(a) Love.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Past.
(d) Christine.

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

12. What is the last word that Christine says before killing herself?
(a) Adam.
(b) Death.
(c) Live.
(d) Ezra.

13. What does Lavinia have to promise to do in order for Orin not to confess all they do?
(a) To leave the house.
(b) To bless his marriage to Hazel.
(c) Anything he wants.
(d) To marry Peter.

14. What does Orin tell Lavinia he is doing, locked in the dark study by himself in the third play?
(a) Communing with ghosts.
(b) Reading law books.
(c) Writing a confession.
(d) Writing her a love poem.

15. What does Orin say, in the last play, that Lavinia steals from their mother?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her colors.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Abner Small have to stay in the Mannon house to win the bet?

2. Orin tells Lavinia, in the last play, that he is drawn to Hazel's what?

3. What does Orin give to Hazel for safe keeping?

4. What is Orin carrying, when he and Lavinia return to the house in Act Five of the second play?

5. Where does Peter have to go in the third act of Play Three?

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