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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The stage directions describe Ezra's dead face as looking like __________.

3. Hazel and Peter get a telegram from Lavinia and Orin, sent from where?

4. What does Orin muse helps women to understand the brutality of war?

5. Orin tells a shocked Lavinia that she must learn to _________ death.

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

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

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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