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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who found Professor Leeds' body?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Darrell.
(c) Nina.
(d) Evans.

2. When does Nina announce that she is leaving in Part 1, Act 1?
(a) Next week.
(b) One month.
(c) That night.
(d) Two months.

3. What does Nina tell Mrs. Evans she doesn't believe in?
(a) God the Father.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Abortion.
(d) Love.

4. What happened to Evans' father?
(a) He ran away to Europe.
(b) He died in a plane crash.
(c) He left his mother for another woman.
(d) He went mad.

5. Why does Leeds say he hated Gordon?
(a) He had blackmailed him.
(b) He killed his wife.
(c) He stole money from him.
(d) He was jealous for Nina's love.

6. Who says, "I used to wish I'd gone out deliberate in our first year, without my husband knowing, and picked a man, a healthy male to breed by, same's we do with stock, to give the man I loved a healthy child"?
(a) Gloria.
(b) Mrs. Evans.
(c) Mary.
(d) Nina.

7. Who speaks first in soliloquy in Part 1, Act 1 (the beginning of the play)?
(a) Nina.
(b) Evans.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Marsden.

8. How many times did Marsden visit Nina while she was away between Acts 1 and 2?
(a) Three times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Once.
(d) Twice.

9. What does Marsden intuitively know about Nina?
(a) That she secretly loves him.
(b) That she sold their papers.
(c) That she had an abortion.
(d) That she is leaving Evans.

10. Who are Nina and Evans visiting in Act 3?
(a) His nephew.
(b) His sister.
(c) His niece.
(d) His mother.

11. What is Evans' first name?
(a) Sam.
(b) Ned.
(c) Charles.
(d) William.

12. What does Evans fear in Act 4?
(a) That Nina loves him too much.
(b) That Nina is dying.
(c) That he's sterile.
(d) That his mother died.

13. Who drove Nina and Evans to upstate New York in Act 3?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Evans.
(d) Darrell.

14. Who begins sobbing the moment Nina arrives at the door in Act 2?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Evans.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Mary.

15. Who does Nina ask to come upstairs and help her pack in Act 1?
(a) Darrell.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Evans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marsden's first name?

2. How much time has passed between Act 1 and Act 2?

3. Who is Nina writing a letter to at the beginning of Act 3?

4. What does Nina complain to her father about in Part 1, Act 1?

5. Who says, "All the other women in the world aren't worth your little finger"?

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