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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. Whose grief do the townspeople discuss in Act 1 of The Hunted?

2. Whose lack of emotion do the townspeople discuss in Act 1 of The Hunted?

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

4. Who does Ezra say has gathered to wait for him, in Act 4 of Homecoming?

5. Where does Act 1, Scene 1 of Homecoming take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the style and use of soliloquy in Strange Interlude. How is this play stylistically different than the others in the collection?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the use of symbolism and motif in Desire Under the Elms. What predominant motifs are described in the text? What themes do these symbolic images illuminate?

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