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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Lavinia send to get Doctor Blake, after Christine kills herself?
(a) Orin.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Peter.
(d) Seth.

2. What does Lavinia show Orin as proof that Christine is a murderer?
(a) Christine's signed confession.
(b) The pillbox.
(c) A love letter from Brant.
(d) The gun.

3. Lavinia tells Christine that killing Brant is what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Murder.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Revenge.

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

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

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

7. Where are Christine and Brant talking while Lavinia and Orin listen in?
(a) Brant's cabin.
(b) The warehouse.
(c) The deck.
(d) The wharf.

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

9. How many letters does Orin receive from Christine in the last six months of the war?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

10. How does Orin kill himself?
(a) Poison.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Ezra's gun.
(d) Drowning.

11. What does Christine tell Orin that Captain Brant is after?
(a) Sex.
(b) Ezra's money.
(c) Lavinia's heart.
(d) Christine's heart.

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

13. What is the name of the islander that Orin taunts Christine about?
(a) Avahanni.
(b) Abner.
(c) Ashanti.
(d) Ashmanni.

14. Where does Orin kill Brant?
(a) In Brant's cabin.
(b) On the deck of the ship.
(c) The warehouse.
(d) The wharf.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lavinia force Orin to say doesn't exist at the beginning of the third play?

3. How long is it before Brant's ship is due to sail from Boston again?

4. Orin tells Christine about a book he reads during the war that tells him all about what?

5. How does Christine kill herself?

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