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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Christine kill herself?
(a) The Mannon sitting room.
(b) The wharf.
(c) Ezra's study.
(d) The Mannon garden.

6. What is Orin and Christine's secret password from Orin's childhood?
(a) Baby boy.
(b) No Mannon's Allowed.
(c) Shenandoah.
(d) No Lavinia's Allowed.

7. Where does Peter have to go in the third act of Play Three?
(a) Bank.
(b) Council meeting.
(c) Doctor's office.
(d) Market.

8. What does Orin call Lavinia in Act Two of Play Three?
(a) Witch.
(b) Beloved.
(c) Whore.
(d) Lover.

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

10. What does Orin muse helps women to understand the brutality of war?
(a) Trading places with the men on the front for a month.
(b) Taking a trip to the deserted battlefields.
(c) Being nurses.
(d) Listening to men's war stories.

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

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

13. Who is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Play Three, Act Two?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Himself.
(c) Ezra's portrait.
(d) Christine's ghost.

14. Who does Christine tell Orin that she is jealous of?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Orin.
(d) Lavinia.

15. What does Orin give to Hazel for safe keeping?
(a) Ezra's medals.
(b) His watch.
(c) Christine's ring.
(d) His manuscript.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Orin says killing Brant is almost like ___________.

3. Orin tells a shocked Lavinia that she must learn to _________ death.

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

5. What is the setting of the second act of Play Two?

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