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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mourning Becomes Electra - Homecoming, Acts 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marsden decide to do in Act 8 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Leave forever.
(b) Go sailing.
(c) Get drunk.
(d) Join the race.

2. What afflicted Marsden's mother?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) A stroke.
(d) Cancer.

3. Who is Christine's lover, in Homecoming?
(a) Orin.
(b) Brant.
(c) Peter.
(d) Seth.

4. What is the name of Ephraim's new wife in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Jenny.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Minnie.
(d) Abbie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbie tell Eben he's all "slicked up" like in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?

2. Who has died in Act 5 in Strange Interlude?

3. In what does Ephraim say you can read the years of his life?

4. How old is Nina in Act 7 of Strange Interlude?

5. What does Nina talk about in her soliloquy at the beginning of Act 5 in Strange Interlude?

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