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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Marsden accuse Nina of getting her ideas from in Act 1?
(a) Television.
(b) Movies.
(c) Books.
(d) Maids.

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

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

4. How much training has Nina had as a nurse?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six months.
(c) One year.
(d) Three years.

5. Why does Marsden say he can't stay long in Act 4?
(a) His sister is ill.
(b) He's late for a train.
(c) He's going to Europe.
(d) His mother is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evans' mother call him?

2. What does Nina threaten to do once Mrs. Evans tells her the truth about the Evans'?

3. How many times did Marsden visit Nina while she was away between Acts 1 and 2?

4. Whom has Nina married in Act 3?

5. How many letters did Nina write to Marsden while she was gone from Act 1 to Act 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Darrell expose in Act 7 about his feelings of the family situation? What does he feel about Gordon?

2. Where does Act 2 begin? How much time has passed since Act 1? What has happened?

3. How does Nina regard God in Act 8?

4. Why does Leeds believe that Nina hates him?

5. How does Gordon feel about Darrell in Act 7? How does he respond to Darrell's comments about Evans?

6. What does Nina tell Darrell that she needs help with in Act 4? What does he respond?

7. What does Nina tease Marsden about in Act 6 that makes him angry? How does he react?

8. What does Nina complain about to Evans in Act 8? Why?

9. Why has Nina not told anyone about her pregnancy in Act 3?

10. What do Evans and his mother talk about in Act 3? What does she ask him about Nina?

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