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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Nina writing a letter to at the beginning of Act 3 in Strange Interlude?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Evans.
(d) Darrell.

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

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

4. What song does the fiddler play in Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) The Moonlight Brigade.
(b) The Sunlight Waltz.
(c) The Needle in the Haystack.
(d) Lady on the Lake.

5. Who is the first character we are introduced to in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Simeon.
(b) Peter.
(c) Eben.
(d) Abbie.

6. In what does Ephraim say you can read the years of his life?
(a) The fence.
(b) The trees.
(c) The cows.
(d) The forest.

7. Who does Nina ask to come upstairs and help her pack, in Act 1 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Evans.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Mary.
(d) Leeds.

8. How old is the character, Simeon, in Desire Under the Elms?
(a) 25.
(b) 39.
(c) 42.
(d) 19.

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

10. Who is remarked to be a good dancer, in Part 3 of Desire Under the Elms?
(a) Simeon.
(b) Abbie.
(c) Eben.
(d) Eprhaim.

11. 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 years.
(d) Five months.

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

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

14. Who says, "It's a wise father who knows his own child" in Strange Interlude?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Darrell.
(d) Evans.

15. How old is Gordon in Act 7 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Eleven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Ephraim in Desire Under the Elms?

2. Why does Leeds say he hated Gordon?

3. How long has Nina studied at the university?

4. Where do the brothers in Desire Under the Elms long to go?

5. What city does Act 7 of Strange Interlude take place in?

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