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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who startles Marsden by standing outside the doorway in Act 2?
(a) Darrell.
(b) Evans.
(c) Nina.
(d) Leeds.

2. What does Leeds admit to Nina that he told Gordon in Act 1?
(a) To marry her secretly.
(b) To never return.
(c) To take her away.
(d) To wait until after the war to marry her.

3. Where has Marsden been before the play begins?
(a) Europe.
(b) Japan.
(c) South America.
(d) Mexico.

4. What is Evans' mother worried about?
(a) Nina having a baby.
(b) Nina not liking her.
(c) Nina having an affair.
(d) Nina leaving Evans.

5. What does Marsden wonder whether Nina will feel at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Grief for her father.
(b) Surprise at seeing him.
(c) Lust for him.
(d) Grief for Gordon.

6. How many letters did Nina write to Marsden while she was gone from Act 1 to Act 2?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) Five.

7. Who is Nina writing a letter to at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Darrell.
(d) Evans.

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

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

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

11. Who does Nina say it seemed as if might have been the real father of her first baby?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Evans.
(d) Darrell.

12. Who has Evans invited over this evening at the beginning of Act 4?
(a) Darrell.
(b) Smithson.
(c) Marsden.
(d) Leeds.

13. Where does Act 4 take place?
(a) Leeds' study.
(b) Marsden's study.
(c) Evans' dining room.
(d) Darrell's office.

14. How old is Dr. Darrell in Act 2?
(a) Thirty-six.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Twenty-nine.
(d) Thirty-one.

15. Where does Act 3 take place?
(a) The Evans' yacht.
(b) Marsden's study.
(c) Evans' dining room.
(d) Leeds' parlor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marsden do for a living?

2. Why does Leeds say he hated Gordon?

3. How old is Evans in Act 2?

4. In what language does Leeds read at the end of Act 1?

5. Whom does Darrell say he couldn't share a woman with?

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