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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. Where does Act 4 of Homecoming take place?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The parlor.
(c) Ezra's bedroom.
(d) Outside the Mannon home.

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

3. Where does Act 1 of The Haunted take place?
(a) Ezra's study.
(b) Outside the Mannon house.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The parlor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What friends of Lavinia's come to visit in Act 1 of Homecoming?

2. Who is Christine anxious for Orin to marry in Act 1 of The Hunted?

3. How are the faces of the Mannon family described in Act 1 of Homecoming?

4. Where does Act 5 take place in The Hunted?

5. Who enters with Lavinia and Peter in Act 1 of The Hunted?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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