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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 long have Lavinia and Orin been away in Act 1 of The Haunted?
(a) Two years.
(b) Several months.
(c) One year.
(d) Two weeks.

2. Who accuses Lavinia of trying to separate her from Orin, in Act 1 of The Hunted?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Brant.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Christine.

3. What is Orin suffering from after the war, in Act 3 of Homecoming?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Asthma.
(c) Heart problems.
(d) Brain fever.

4. Whose grief do the townspeople discuss in Act 1 of The Hunted?
(a) Hazel's.
(b) Lavinia's.
(c) Orin's.
(d) Christine's.

5. Who is the first person who speaks in Act 1 of Homecoming?
(a) Christine.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Seth.
(d) Orin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Homecoming begin?

2. Who does Christine go to warn at the end of Act 2 of The Hunted?

3. What is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Act 3 of The Hunted?

4. Lavinia accuses who of getting the poison, in Act 3 of The Hunted?

5. Who has died in Act 8 of Strange Interlude?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When Christine enters in Act 3 of The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra, what is her reaction? How does this change Orin's mind?

6. Describe the exposition which takes place at the beginning of Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra. Who is speaking, and what is discussed?

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

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

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

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

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