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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Strange Interlude, Part 2, Acts 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Nina causes concern for her father in Part 1, Act 1 in Strange Interlude?
(a) Her loss of money.
(b) Her erratic behavior.
(c) Her drinking.
(d) Her inheritance.

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

3. Eben's mother was Ephraim's _____ wife.
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

4. Whose death is Nina lamenting in the beginning of Strange Interlude?
(a) Gordon Williams.
(b) Frank Marsden.
(c) Gordon Shaw.
(d) Sam Evans.

5. Where is the Cabot farmhouse in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) New England.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) California.
(d) New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ephraim taunts Eben about the farm, saying that Abbie did what in order to get it for herself in Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?

2. In what state is Ephraim, in the beginning of Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?

3. Where does Eben say he's leaving to go, in Part 3, Scene 3 of Desire Under the Elms?

4. How old is the character, Simeon, in Desire Under the Elms?

5. Who is Nina writing a letter to at the beginning of Act 3 in Strange Interlude?

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