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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 is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Act 3 of The Hunted?
(a) His father's body.
(b) His father's portrait.
(c) His sister's corpse.
(d) His father's ashes.

2. What friends of Lavinia's come to visit in Act 1 of Homecoming?
(a) Hazel and Peter.
(b) Hazel and Orin.
(c) Ezra and Christine.
(d) Sarah and Paul.

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

4. Who does Christine go to warn at the end of Act 2 of The Hunted?
(a) Brant.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Seth.

5. In what room of the house does Act 1 of The Haunted take place?
(a) Lavinia's bedroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) Ezra's bedroom.
(d) The sitting room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Lavinia's father?

2. Who commits suicide in the ending of The Hunted?

3. Who is the first person who speaks in Act 1 of Homecoming?

4. A drunken sailor gives Brant the news of what, in Act 4 of The Hunted?

5. Who does Ezra say has gathered to wait for him, in Act 4 of Homecoming?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the scene in Ezra's bedroom when he dies in Mourning Becomes Electra.

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

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

6. In Act 2 of The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra, what discussion takes place between Hazel, Peter, Orin, Christine, and Lavinia?

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

8. What are Orin's and Christine's reactions upon first seeing each other in The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra?

9. Who does Darrell talk about in Act 8 of Strange Interlude? Why does this upset Nina?

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

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