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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 is the name of the main character speaking in the first scene of Homecoming?

2. Lavinia writes her father a letter about whom?

3. What year is Mourning Becomes Electra taking place?

4. Lavinia always reminds her mother of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Captain Brant tell Lavinia about the islands he goes to?

2. How does Ezra describe Orin's condition to Christine when he returns from the war?

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

4. How does Christine treat Hazel in the second play?

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

6. How do Orin and Lavinia come to be just like their parents?

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

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

9. How does Orin tell Lavinia he is actually wounded in the war?

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 each of the following themes and how they resonate throughout the play: family duty; sins of the fathers; and the dark side of love.

Essay Topic 2

What statement does Mourning Becomes Electra make on the nature and power of guilt?

Essay Topic 3

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

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