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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. What new character is introduced in Act 8 of Strange Interlude?

2. Orin reacts with what, upon seeing Lavinia and Peter kissing in Act 1 of The Haunted?

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

4. What does Lavinia produce as proof of her suspicions in Act 3 of The Hunted?

5. Where does Act 1 of The Hunted begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Nina jealous of in Act 8 of Strange Interlude? Who knows about this?

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

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

8. How does the theme of justice in The Haunted, Mourning Becomes Electra relate to the same theme in The Oresteia?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of revenge as it applies to all three plays in the collection. How is revenge represented differently in each play? How is it one of the cohesive themes which bind the plays?

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