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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 do Seth and the townspeople discuss in Act 1 of The Haunted?
(a) The house being haunted.
(b) The marriage of Christine.
(c) The marriage of Lavinia.
(d) The funeral of Ezra.

2. Who has died in Act 9 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Evans.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Nina.
(d) Gordon.

3. In Act 2 of The Hunted, Hazel and Peter discuss how ill someone is. Who is this person?
(a) Brant.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Orin.
(d) Christine.

4. Who is Lavinia's father?
(a) Michael.
(b) Orin.
(c) Brant.
(d) Ezra.

5. Orin reacts with what, upon seeing Lavinia and Peter kissing in Act 1 of The Haunted?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are Orin and Lavinia returning from in Act 1 of The Haunted?

2. Who is present at the opening of Act 9, in Strange Interlude?

3. Who is Christine's lover, in Homecoming?

4. Who does Gordon feel was indifferent about his father's illness in Strange Interlude?

5. Where does Act 1 of The Haunted take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the characters of Hazel and Peter in the trilogy of Mourning Becomes Electra. What is their role, symbolically?

2. Why are the final lines of Act 1, Scene 1 of The Haunted, Mourning Becomes Electra ironic?

3. What is significant about Orin's comment of Brant's face in The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra, Act 5?

4. What exposition is taking place at the beginning of The Haunted, Mourning Becomes Electra? Who is present?

5. How is Orin described as in The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra? What does he speak of when he arrives?

6. How does Lavinia's crying out to her father in The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra reflect similar scenes in the other two plays?

7. Where is Act Two set in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra? What discussion takes place between Lavinia and Christine here?

8. What is Nina jealous of in Act 8 of Strange Interlude? Who knows about this?

9. What is Orin writing in Act 2 of The Haunted, Mourning Becomes Electra? What is Lavinia's reaction?

10. Who interrupts Gordon and Madeline in Act 9 of Strange Interlude? What are this character's thoughts about them?

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