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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine go into her room to get when Ezra becomes ill?

2. What does Captain Brant tell Lavinia happens to his father?

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

4. As he is dying, Christine tells Lavinia that Ezra is ____________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Orin suspicious of his mother's fondness for Hazel?

2. What does Orin tell Lavinia he dreams about during the war?

3. What is Lavinia's fate?

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

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

6. What about Christine surprises Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Hills?

7. Describe Christine and Orin's reunion.

8. What does Christine tell Lavinia is the reason they never get along?

9. Why is Orin surprised by Christine's obvious grief over Brant's death?

10. What significant information does Captain Brant learn from the drunken sailor near his ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the symbolic significance of each of the following: The Mannon house; the song "Shenandoah"; the family resemblances and the islands.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the thematic points of fate versus free will shown throughout Mourning Becomes Electra.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lavinia call the Mannon house the Temple of Hate and Death? What role does religion play in the plot, and most specifically, in the Mannon name itself?

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