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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. 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) Mary.
(b) Mrs. Evans.
(c) Nina.
(d) Gloria.

2. What does Nina threaten to do once Mrs. Evans tells her the truth about the Evans'?
(a) Tell Evans everything.
(b) Leave Evans.
(c) Kill Evans.
(d) Kill herself.

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

4. What does Nina say she feels for Evans in Act 4?
(a) Love.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Pity.
(d) Remorse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who talked Gordon out of the marriage before the war?

2. What does Evans' mother call him?

3. What does Nina call Marsden at the end of Act 2?

4. What does Nina tell Mrs. Evans she doesn't believe in?

5. How much time has passed between Acts 2 and 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Nina say she's going away in Act 1?

3. What does Nina's mother-in-law tell her about the Evans' family?

4. What does Nina say to Darrell regarding love and marriage in Act 4?

5. Why does Darrell say he is able to leave his work frequently? Who asks him about this in Act 7?

6. What does Nina reveal in reading aloud her letter in Act 3?

7. What does Darrell tell Marsden about Nina's behavior at the hospital?

8. What does Nina think about doing in the end of Act 9? What are her feelings?

9. When and where does Act 8 take place? Who is present?

10. How does Nina feel about Evans in Act 4? How does this relate to her pregnancy?

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