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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. To what does Christine express extreme shock at seeing in Act 3 of The Hunted?
(a) The dagger.
(b) The ring.
(c) The pillbox.
(d) The letters.

2. What is the setting of Act 3 in The Hunted?
(a) The harbor.
(b) Outside the Mannon house.
(c) Ezra's study.
(d) The cemetery.

3. Where does Act 1, Scene 1 of Homecoming take place?
(a) Ezra's study.
(b) The parlor.
(c) The exterior of the Mannon home.
(d) The dining room.

4. What kind of ailment does Ezra suffer from?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Paralysis.
(c) Heart condition.
(d) A stroke.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Ezra had a premonition of in Act 4 of Homecoming?

2. Where does Act 9 take place, in Strange Interlude?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the foreshadowing which takes place in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra.

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

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

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

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

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

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