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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lavinia place over the heart of her father's dead body in Act Three of the second play?
(a) Christine's pillbox.
(b) Ezra's gun.
(c) A vial of her blood.
(d) A lock of her hair.

2. What does Orin tell Lavinia he is doing, locked in the dark study by himself in the third play?
(a) Reading law books.
(b) Communing with ghosts.
(c) Writing her a love poem.
(d) Writing a confession.

3. What is Orin carrying, when he and Lavinia return to the house in Act Five of the second play?
(a) A rose.
(b) A gun.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A letter.

4. What does Seth bet Abner to stay the night in the Mannon house?
(a) The town.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) A jug of rum.
(d) Ten dollars and a jug of liquor.

5. Who does Christine tell Orin that she is jealous of?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Orin.

6. What does Orin call Lavinia in Act Two of Play Three?
(a) Beloved.
(b) Lover.
(c) Whore.
(d) Witch.

7. The stage directions describe Ezra's dead face as looking like __________.
(a) Abe's.
(b) A monster.
(c) Orin's.
(d) A statue.

8. Lavinia tells the portraits in the sitting room, in the last play, that she does her ______ to them.
(a) Justice.
(b) Worst.
(c) Duty.
(d) Best.

9. What does Orin tell his mother that Brant does to her to get her to murder Ezra?
(a) Drug.
(b) Hypnotize.
(c) Brainwash.
(d) Beg.

10. Lavinia tells Christine that killing Brant is what?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Murder.
(c) Justice.
(d) Revenge.

11. Orin tells Christine about a book he reads during the war that tells him all about what?
(a) The islands.
(b) China.
(c) Farming.
(d) Death.

12. Where does Orin tell Christine they can go now that Brant is dead?
(a) Blessed islands.
(b) China.
(c) Home.
(d) South Seas.

13. What does Orin say, in the last play, that Lavinia steals from their mother?
(a) Love.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Her colors.

14. Lavinia tells Orin that Ezra says Orin does one of the _________ things he sees in the war.
(a) Bravest.
(b) Stupidest.
(c) Kindest.
(d) Craziest.

15. Who is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Play Three, Act Two?
(a) Ezra's portrait.
(b) Himself.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Christine's ghost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seth tells Peter and Hazel he doesn't stay the night in the Mannon house if they give him what?

2. Orin tells Christine at the end of the Play Two, Act Three that she is his what?

3. What is Orin and Christine's secret password from Orin's childhood?

4. What do Lavinia and Orin do after Brant is shot?

5. Where does Christine kill herself?

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