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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Act 2 take place?
(a) Leeds' study.
(b) The yacht.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Marsden's study.

4. Why does Leeds insist that Nina not leave in Act 1?
(a) She is promiscuous.
(b) She is naive.
(c) She is sick.
(d) She is frivolous.

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

6. How long does Evans say he and Nina have been sleeping separately in Act 4?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Five months.
(d) One year.

7. What is Evans' aunt's name?
(a) Hattie.
(b) Zelda.
(c) Bessie.
(d) Tilda.

8. Whom has Nina married in Act 3?
(a) Smithson.
(b) Darrell.
(c) Evans.
(d) Marsden.

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

10. Who was in Gordon's class at school?
(a) Darrell.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Evans.

11. Who says, "How we poor monkeys hide from ourselves behind the sounds of called words"?
(a) Darrell.
(b) Leeds.
(c) Nina.
(d) Marsden.

12. Whom does Darrell say he couldn't share a woman with?
(a) Her mother.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A husband.
(d) Her father.

13. Who talked Gordon out of the marriage before the war?
(a) Sam Evans.
(b) Edmund Darrell.
(c) Nina Leeds.
(d) Professor Leeds.

14. In what language does Leeds read at the end of Act 1?
(a) French.
(b) Latin.
(c) Greek.
(d) Italian.

15. Who does Mrs. Evans tell Nina she won't see again?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Darrell.
(c) Mrs. Evans.
(d) Evans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Dr. Darrell in Act 2?

2. Why does Marsden say he can't stay long in Act 4?

3. When does Darrell say he'll marry in Act 4?

4. How old is Evans in Act 2?

5. What does Marsden wonder whether Nina will feel at the beginning of Act 2?

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