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

2. A drunken sailor gives Brant the news of what, in Act 4 of The Hunted?

3. Where does Act 1 of The Hunted begin?

4. What does Christine give to Ezra in the end of Homecoming?

5. In Act 2 of The Hunted, Hazel and Peter discuss how ill someone is. Who is this person?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the foreshadowing which takes place in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra.

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

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

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

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 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 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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