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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 kills Brant in Act 4 of The Hunted?

2. What is the setting of Act 3 in The Hunted?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Nina think about doing in the end of Act 9 in Strange Interlude? What are her feelings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the themes of Desire Under the Elms to those of Strange Interlude. What themes exist in both plays? How do they differ thematically?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the setting of each of the three plays affects the action and the characters. How are the settings different in the plays? What correlates to each? Discuss era and historical period in your answer as well as location.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the characters of Lavinia and Christine in the Mourning Becomes Electra trilogy. How and why do these characters become more alike in the progression of the trilogy?

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