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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. How does Marsden know Leeds?
(a) He was his father's accountant.
(b) He was his professor.
(c) He arranged his wedding.
(d) He worked for him at the hospital.

2. Who calls thoughts, "mosquitoes of the soul"?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Nina.
(c) Darrell.
(d) Evans.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nina writing in Act 4?

2. Who found Professor Leeds' body?

3. Where does Act 2 take place?

4. Who has asked Nina to marry him in Act 2?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Evans know Darrell? How does he feel about him?

2. What does Mrs. Evans ask Nina in Act 3? What is her response?

3. What do Nina's thoughts reveal about her father in Act 2?

4. How does Darrell feel about his family in Act 9?

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

6. What does Gordon do with Darrell's birthday present? Why?

7. How does Marsden feel when he is left alone with Nina in Act 6?

8. What does Nina say about God's indifference in Act 2?

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

10. What do Evans' thoughts reveal about Nina in the beginning of Act 4? What do they reveal about his work?

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