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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Christine call out to protect Adam Brant at the end of Play Two, Act Three?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) David.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Orin.

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

3. Lavinia threatens to do what if Orin doesn't listen to what she has to say about Christine and their father's death?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Kill Christine.
(c) Go to the police.
(d) Go to Brant.

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

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

6. What is the name of the man that Christine convinces Orin she meets in New York, rather than Brant?
(a) Mr. Jones.
(b) Mr. Long.
(c) Mr. Lamar.
(d) Mr. Hamel.

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

8. Lavinia tells Orin that Ezra says Orin does one of the _________ things he sees in the war.
(a) Craziest.
(b) Stupidest.
(c) Kindest.
(d) Bravest.

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

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

11. Who does Orin think is waiting for him in the study, when he returns from his long trip with Lavinia?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Brant.
(d) Christine.

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

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

14. Christine tells Orin that Lavinia becomes _________ since he is gone.
(a) Insane.
(b) Controlling.
(c) Softer.
(d) Wiser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Looking down on the action of Play Two, Act Two is a portrait of a soldier from ____________ army.

2. Where do Brant and Christine plan to sail to on the ship Atlantis?

3. Who is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Play Three, Act Two?

4. The stage directions describe Ezra's dead face as looking like __________.

5. What does Christine tell Orin that Captain Brant is after?

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