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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 Lavinia say that Captain Brant is using for revenge?
(a) Orin.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Herself

2. Lavinia writes her father a letter about whom?
(a) Seth.
(b) Peter.
(c) Orin.
(d) Brant.

3. What is the name of the main character speaking in the first scene of Homecoming?
(a) Orin.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Abe.
(d) Seth.

4. Lavinia always reminds her mother of what?
(a) Her honeymoon.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her lost youth.
(d) Her brother.

5. Ezra tells Christine that the war makes him look at ________ differently.
(a) Orin.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Death.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine call Orin when she first sees him on the day he returns from the war?

2. Who does Ezra point an accusing finger at as he is dying?

3. Ezra tells Orin that his heart condition is what?

4. Who does Lavinia vow to punish at the end of the first play?

5. Ezra tells Christine he can't talk to her with her ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the conversation between Seth and the townspeople in the first scene of the play hint at secrets in the Mannon family?

2. How does Peter react to seeing Lavinia when she returns from her trip to the East?

3. What does Orin say about the war that shocks Christine, Hazel and Peter?

4. How does Christine learn of Brant's murder?

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

6. Why does Adam Brant tell Lavinia he wants to kill Ezra?

7. Why is Christine able to bond with Orin and not Lavinia?

8. Describe Ezra's death scene.

9. What do Seth and the other men dare Abner Small to do at the beginning of the third play?

10. What does Hazel tell Lavinia in the last act of the play?

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