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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 Darrell want Marsden to help convince Nina to do in Act 2?

2. What does Leeds admit to Nina that he told Gordon in Act 1?

3. What does Nina complain to her father about in Part 1, Act 1?

4. How much time passes between Acts 3 and 4?

5. In what language does Leeds read at the end of Act 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Nina jealous of in Act 8? Who knows about this?

2. What does Leeds do at the end of Act 1? What are his thoughts?

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

4. When does Mrs. Evans say that Nina will see her again? Why?

5. Who arrives unexpectedly in Act 6? Why?

6. What are Marsden's thoughts at the beginning of Act 1?

7. What do Marsden and Leeds speak about in Act 1?

8. What does Darrell want Nina to do in Act 6? How does she respond?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how foreshadowing is employed in Strange Interlude. What events in particular are foreshadowed? Who speaks this dialogue?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the theme of "Internal Conflict." How is this manifested in Strange Interlude? How does O'Neill express this through stream-of-consciousness style of writing?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Evans and Darrell. How are these characters similar? How are they different? Who do they share love for?

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