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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose house does Ira Mackel say is haunted?
(a) Abner Small.
(b) Everett Hills.
(c) Asa Nims.
(d) Amos Ames.

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

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

4. How much time passes between Acts One and Two of Play Three?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Two days.

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

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

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

8. What does Brant give up to runaway with Christine?
(a) His dignity.
(b) His fortune.
(c) His family.
(d) His ship.

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

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

11. Lavinia tells the portraits in the sitting room, in the last play, that she does her ______ to them.
(a) Duty.
(b) Justice.
(c) Best.
(d) Worst.

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

13. What is Orin carrying, when he and Lavinia return to the house in Act Five of the second play?
(a) A gun.
(b) A rose.
(c) A letter.
(d) A newspaper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Orin tell Christine they can go now that Brant is dead?

2. What is the name of the ship officer that Orin accuses Lavinia of wanting on their trip East?

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

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

5. What color dress is Lavinia wearing in the first act of Play Three?

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