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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Strange Interlude, Part 1, Acts 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has Nina taught to take care of her father while she's gone?
(a) Mary.
(b) Darrell.
(c) Leeds.
(d) Marsden.

2. What does Ephraim say he'd turn free when he died?
(a) The pigs.
(b) The horses.
(c) The cows.
(d) The chickens.

3. What does Nina talk about in her soliloquy at the beginning of Act 5 in Strange Interlude?
(a) Her pregnancy.
(b) Her sorrow of Leeds' death.
(c) Her love of Leeds.
(d) Her love for Marsden.

4. With whom does Eben go to sleep in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) The cows.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Minnie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist in Desire Under the Elms?

2. In Scene 3 of Part 3 in Desire Under the Elms, Ephraim is asleep in his bedroom as Abbie confesses what to Eben?

3. In Part 1 of Desire Under the Elms, how long has it been since Simeon's woman died?

4. What is Simeon's brother's name in Desire Under the Elms?

5. Where does Nina say she is going in Part 1, Act 1 in Strange Interlude?

(see the answer key)

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