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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. How much time passes between Acts 7 and 8 in Strange Interlude?
(a) One year.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Ten years.

2. What does Christine give to Ezra in the end of Homecoming?
(a) A ring.
(b) A diamond.
(c) An envelope.
(d) Poison.

3. Who is Christine's lover, in Homecoming?
(a) Orin.
(b) Brant.
(c) Peter.
(d) Seth.

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

5. How are the faces of the Mannon family described in Act 1 of Homecoming?
(a) Soft.
(b) Mask-like.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Vicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Brant in Act 4 of The Hunted?

2. Who informs Seth of Lavinia and Orin's coming arrival in Act 1 of The Haunted?

3. Who does Christine say has become mentally unhinged in Act 2 of The Hunted?

4. Who does Gordon feel that Nina truly loved?

5. Who is Lavinia's mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Ezra's return in Mourning Becomes Electra.

4. What do Peter, Hazel, and Lavinia discuss upon their arrival in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra?

5. Who is Christine in Mourning Becomes Electra? What do she and Lavinia discuss when she first enters?

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

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

8. In The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra, Act 3, what do Orin and Lavinia discuss in the study?

9. What does Lavinia ask Brant in Act 3 of Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra? What takes place during this discussion?

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

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