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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orin tell Christine is the difference in her appearance when he returns home?

2. What does Hazel give to Orin to help make him comfortable, as he settles into being back home?

3. Why does Brant have a pistol out as he tells the drunk shantyman on the wharf to show himself?

4. What does Lavinia place over the heart of her father's dead body in Act Three of the second play?

5. Seth tells Hazel he lets Abner Small in the house to stop the __________.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Lavinia call the Mannon house the Temple of Hate and Death? What role does religion play in the plot, and most specifically, in the Mannon name itself?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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