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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has died in Act 5 in Strange Interlude?
(a) Evans' mother.
(b) Leeds' brother.
(c) Marsden's sister.
(d) Marsden's mother.

3. How much time passes between Acts 6 and 7 in Strange Interlude?
(a) Ten years.
(b) One year.
(c) Eleven years.
(d) Two years.

4. How old is Nina in Act 7 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Forty-one.
(b) Forty-five.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Thirty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "All the other women in the world aren't worth your little finger" in Strange Interlude?

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

3. How old was Ephraim when he came to the farm?

4. Who is the woman Eben goes to visit in Desire Under the Elms?

5. Why does Nina say she must go away in Act 1 in Strange Interlude?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gordon feel about Darrell in Act 7 of Strange Interlude? How does he respond to Darrell's comments about Evans?

2. How does Darrell feel toward Evans in Act 5 of Strange Interlude? What does he plan to do at the end of the act?

3. What news does Eben return to the farmhouse to inform his brothers of, in Part 1 of Desire Under the Elms? What is the brothers' reaction?

4. What does Abbie confess to Eben in Part 3 in Desire Under the Elms? What is his reaction?

5. In what ways does Evans compare himself to Gordon in Act 2 of Strange Interlude?

6. What has happened between Acts 5 and 6 of Strange Interlude? Who reveals the exposition at the beginning of this act?

7. How does Nina feel about her family in Act 7 of Strange Interlude? How does she feel about her life and about Darrell?

8. What is the symbolic statement behind Abbie and Eben's entrance into the parlor in Part 2 in Desire Under the Elms?

9. What is Abbie doing when Part 3 begins in Desire Under the Elms? What is the talk of the town about?

10. What does Nina reveal in reading aloud her letter in Act 3 of Strange Interlude?

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