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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. Lavinia always reminds her mother of what?

2. What are both Christine and Lavinia wearing in the first scene of Homecoming?

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

4. How does Brant want to kill Ezra?

5. How long are Ezra and Christine married?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Ezra to have a heart attack the morning after he returns from the war?

3. What does Christine accuse Lavinia of at the end of the first act of the second play?

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

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

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

7. What does Orin tell Hazel to do with the envelope he gives her in Play Three, Act Three?

8. How does Lavinia react when Seth tells her that Adam Brant might be a Mannon?

9. Why does Lavinia refuse Peter's marriage proposal in the first act of the play?

10. What is remarkable about Lavinia's appearance in the third play?

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

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 3

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

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