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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. What does the old gardener call Lavinia?
(a) Vinnie.
(b) Viv.
(c) The princess.
(d) Lala.

2. What is the name of Louisa Ames' cousin?
(a) Melissa.
(b) Mary.
(c) May.
(d) Minnie.

3. What does Lavinia tell Peter she hates in the first scene of the play?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Love.
(c) War.
(d) Flowers.

4. Where does Ezra die?
(a) His bed.
(b) The front porch.
(c) Christine's arms.
(d) His study.

5. Christine convinces Brant to get a drug to help kill Ezra from where?
(a) Boston.
(b) Paris.
(c) London.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Christine tells Hazel that life twists people's feeling for each other until they do what to each other?

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

3. Ezra accuses Christine of lying to him __________.

4. Ezra Mannon is dressed like a __________ in the portrait that hangs in his study.

5. Where does Lavinia tell Seth she is at the beginning of Part Two in the first scene of Homecoming?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is significant about Play One, Act Two taking place under the watchful eye of Ezra's portrait?

3. How does Orin describe his and Lavinia's experience on the Island?

4. How does the war change Ezra's view about death?

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

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

7. Why does Christine compare the Mannon house to Abe Mannon?

8. What is Orin's tone as he talks to his dead father in Play Two, Act Three?

9. What does Christine say when Orin confronts her about Captain Brant, the day he returns from the war?

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

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