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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 speech does Orin's seem an echo of, in Act 1 of The Hunted?

2. Who does Christine say has become mentally unhinged in Act 2 of The Hunted?

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

4. How much time passes between Acts 7 and 8 in Strange Interlude?

5. Who is Lavinia's brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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