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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. Where does Lavinia tell Seth she is at the beginning of Part Two in the first scene of Homecoming?

2. Who does Mrs. Borden say she can't abide?

3. Christine and Brant plot to make Ezra's death look like a ___________.

4. Ezra tells Christine there is always ___________ between them.

5. What is Amos Ames' trade?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Christine die?

3. Who is Josiah Borden?

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

5. What do Seth and the townspeople discuss as the first scene of the play opens?

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

7. What does Seth tell Lavinia about the French-Canadian nurse that he believes is Brant's mother?

8. Describe the Mannon mansion in the opening scene of the play.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the specific character parallels between the Greek tragedies and Mourning Becomes Electra. What are some of the significant differences between characters that give a different resonance to O'Neill's play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how O'Neill uses the classical Greek tragedies The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, and Electra by Euripides. What components of the plots are used in Mourning Becomes Electra?

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