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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the second act of Play Two?

2. What is the name of the man that Christine convinces Orin she meets in New York, rather than Brant?

3. Lavinia tells Orin that their mother's suicide is an act of what?

4. Where does Peter have to go in the third act of Play Three?

5. What is the last word that Christine says before killing herself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is love evoked throughout the novel as a justification for sins. What are the thematic implications of the darker side of love in the play?

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

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

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