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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Evans say he and Nina have been sleeping separately, in Act 4 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Nine months.
(b) One year.
(c) Five months.
(d) Five years.

2. How long has the father in Desire Under the Elms been gone in the beginning of the play?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

3. Who is the woman Eben goes to visit in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Minnie.
(b) Sally.
(c) Jenny.
(d) Sarah.

4. Why does Eben offer the others money in Part 1 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) To sign over the farm.
(b) To sell the farm.
(c) To hire new workers.
(d) To bribe them to kill their father.

5. In what year does Desire Under the Elms take place?
(a) 1840.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1850.

6. Where does Marsden accuse Nina of getting her ideas from, in Act 1 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Gossipers.
(b) Her father.
(c) Books.
(d) Newspapers.

7. Who does Eben leave to find at the end of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) His brothers.
(b) The Sheriff.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

8. Where does Eben get the money he promises to the others in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) His safe.
(b) His bank account.
(c) His hidden stash.
(d) His father's secret stash.

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

10. Who does Abbie say that Eben resembles in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Ephraim.
(b) Simeon.
(c) His mother.
(d) Peter.

11. What does Ephraim compare Abbie's eyes to?
(a) Angels.
(b) Emeralds.
(c) Doves.
(d) Diamonds.

12. Why does Nina say she must go away in Act 1 in Strange Interlude?
(a) To meet a husband.
(b) To make money for the family.
(c) To pay duty to Gordon.
(d) To gain forgiveness from God.

13. In Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms, Ephraim prays, "An' God hearkened unto _____!".
(a) Mary.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Me.
(d) Rachel.

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

15. What does Abbie tell Eben he's all "slicked up" like in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) A city boy.
(b) A baby.
(c) A lion in winter.
(d) A prize bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Nina named her baby?

2. In the final scene of Desire Under the Elms, Ephraim comments to the Sheriff that the farm is a what?

3. Who does Abbie tease Eben about in Part 2 of Desire Under the Elms?

4. Where has Marsden been before the play begins in Strange Interlude?

5. How old is Abbie's son, in Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?

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