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

2. What does Abbie refer to the woman as that Eben is going to see, in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Hake.
(b) Witch.
(c) Hag.
(d) Heffer.

3. Who is the patriarch of the Mannon family, who has been away at war, in Act 1 of Homecoming?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Abel.
(c) Brant.
(d) Orin.

4. 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 killed Ephraim.
(b) That she is leaving.
(c) That she killed their son.
(d) That she is killing herself.

5. Who speaks first in soliloquy in Part 1, Act 1 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Mary.
(b) Evans.
(c) Nina.
(d) Marsden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eben cry out to for not saving the baby in Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?

2. How long has Nina studied at the university?

3. Ephraim calls Abbie his what, in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?

4. How much time passes between Acts 7 and 8 in Strange Interlude?

5. Abbie asks whether Eben would love her again if she could prove what?

(see the answer key)

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