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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is present at the opening of Act 9, in Strange Interlude?

2. Who has died in Act 9 of Strange Interlude?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ending of The Haunted and how this ending reflects an ending of both the play individually as well as the trilogy as a whole. How is the trilogy structured? What is the resolution?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the actions and events which occur in The Hunted. Which play of the Oresteia is this play an adaptation of? How do the plot points differ than in Aeschylus' play?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of "relinquishing the ghosts of the past" in Desire Under the Elms. What is symbolically representative of the theme in the play?

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