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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marsden ask Darrell about?

2. Whose death is Nina lamenting in the beginning of the play?

3. Whom has Nina married in Act 3?

4. Who says, "How we poor monkeys hide from ourselves behind the sounds of called words"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Marsden say about his writing in Act 8?

4. What are Marsden's thoughts at the beginning of Act 2?

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

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

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

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

9. Who interrupts Gordon and Madeline in Act 9? What are this character's thoughts about them?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of mental illness in Strange Interlude. Who is afflicted with mental illness in the play? How does mental illness propel the actions of the characters?

Essay Topic 2

How does Nina feel about her father? Why? Describe this relationship.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Nina. How old is she in the beginning of the play, and at the end? What is her demeanor? How does this character change in the course of the play?

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