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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 year is Mourning Becomes Electra taking place?

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

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

5. What is the name of Captain Brant's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is David Mannon?

2. Who is Josiah Borden?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Lavinia's fate?

9. How does Christine plan to kill Ezra with the help of Captain Brant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What kind of demands on the audience does Mourning Becomes Electra make? Discuss the structure, length and emotional weight of the play.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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