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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 Ezra tell Christine that house and his bed are waiting for?

2. Captain Brant speaks to Lavinia at some length about his love of _______.

3. Who is waiting with Christine to see Orin return from the train station?

4. What is the setting of Play One, Act Four?

5. Christine tells Lavinia she believes the war is over when she hears what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lavinia begin to change Orin's mind about their mother's innocence?

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

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

4. What does Orin mean when he tells her that he can forgive her for anything, except being with Brant?

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

6. What does Hazel say about the Mannon house as she and Peter prepare it for Lavinia and Orin's return from the islands?

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

8. Who is David Mannon?

9. What is Ezra's appearance like on the night he returns from the war?

10. According to Mrs. Borden, how is Lavinia handling her father's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how O'Neill makes the key thematic point through Mourning Becomes Electra that humanity doesn't change much in two thousand years.

Essay Topic 2

Elements of both the laws of man and nature are distorted and broken in this play. Discuss the symbolic and thematic implications of incest, murder and revenge in Mourning Becomes Electra.

Essay Topic 3

How do Orin and Lavinia begin to resemble their parents, not only in appearance, but in the very words they speak by the end of the play? What are the thematic implications of this metamorphosis?

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