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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Strange Interlude, Part 1, Acts 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the final scene of Desire Under the Elms, Ephraim comments to the Sheriff that the farm is a what?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Curse.
(c) Hell.
(d) Jim-dandy.

2. What does Marsden do for a living?
(a) He is a publicist.
(b) He is an ad man.
(c) He is a farmer.
(d) He is a writer.

3. In Scene 3 of Part 3 in Desire Under the Elms, Ephraim is asleep in his bedroom as Abbie confesses what to Eben?
(a) That she is leaving.
(b) That she killed their son.
(c) That she is killing herself.
(d) That she killed Ephraim.

4. What do Peter and Simeon taunt Ephraim with when he enters, in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A folksong.
(c) Knock-knock jokes.
(d) Lullabyes.

5. Where does Nina say she is going in Part 1, Act 1 in Strange Interlude?
(a) To work in Europe.
(b) To work at a school.
(c) To work at a farm.
(d) To work at a sanitarium.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ephraim when he came to the farm?

2. Why does Eben offer the others money in Part 1 of Desire Under the Elms?

3. Where does Eben get the money he promises to the others in Desire Under the Elms?

4. Who does Nina ask to come upstairs and help her pack, in Act 1 of Strange Interlude?

5. How does Marsden know Leeds?

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