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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does David Mannon marry?
(a) An English heiress.
(b) A New Yorker.
(c) A French Canadian.
(d) A French maid.

2. How does Orin learn about Captain Brant?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) Meeting him New York.
(c) Christine's letters.
(d) Lavinia's letters.

3. What is the setting of the Act Three of Homecoming?
(a) The Mannon sitting room.
(b) The harbor.
(c) Ezra's study.
(d) Outside the Mannon house.

4. Who does Lavinia vow to punish at the end of the first play?
(a) Abe.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Brant.
(d) Christine.

5. What year is Mourning Becomes Electra taking place?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1896.
(d) 1901.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor call Ezra's heart condition?

2. Christine convinces Brant to get a drug to help kill Ezra from where?

3. Lavinia always reminds her mother of what?

4. What is the name of Louisa Ames' cousin?

5. Lavinia writes her father a letter about whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Neill show a clear contrast between Christine and Hazel in Play Two, Act Five?

2. How does Ezra tell Christine he is feeling the morning after he returns from the war?

3. Why does Lavinia refuse Peter's marriage proposal in the first act of the play?

4. What does Christine accuse Lavinia of at the end of the first act of the second play?

5. What is remarkable about Lavinia's appearance in the third play?

6. What is Orin writing down in Play Three, Act Two?

7. What does Mrs. Hills attribute Ezra's sudden death to?

8. What plans do Christine and Brant make when she comes to see him on his ship?

9. What condition is Orin in at the beginning of the third play?

10. Describe Ezra's death scene.

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