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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Orin kill himself?
(a) Poison.
(b) Ezra's gun.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Drowning.

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

3. Seth tells Peter and Hazel he doesn't stay the night in the Mannon house if they give him what?
(a) A beautiful woman.
(b) The town.
(c) The house.
(d) A million dollars.

4. 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) A vial of her blood.
(c) Ezra's gun.
(d) A lock of her hair.

5. What does Orin tell Lavinia killing in the war is like?
(a) Making love.
(b) Finding freedom.
(c) Killing the same man twice.
(d) Killing his soul.

6. Seth tells Peter and Hazel that the Mannon house is built with what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Greed.
(d) Murder.

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

8. Orin tells Christine at the end of the Play Two, Act Three that she is his what?
(a) Lost island.
(b) Blessed island.
(c) Dead.
(d) Savior.

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

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

11. Where does Christine kill herself?
(a) The Mannon garden.
(b) The Mannon sitting room.
(c) The wharf.
(d) Ezra's study.

12. Where does Orin kill Brant?
(a) On the deck of the ship.
(b) In Brant's cabin.
(c) The warehouse.
(d) The wharf.

13. Where are Christine and Brant talking while Lavinia and Orin listen in?
(a) The warehouse.
(b) The deck.
(c) Brant's cabin.
(d) The wharf.

14. Lavinia threatens to do what if Orin doesn't listen to what she has to say about Christine and their father's death?
(a) Kill Christine.
(b) Go to Brant.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Go to the police.

15. What does Lavinia force Orin to say doesn't exist at the beginning of the third play?
(a) Christine.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Love.
(d) Past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Looking down on the action of Play Two, Act Two is a portrait of a soldier from ____________ army.

2. How does Christine kill herself?

3. What does Seth bet Abner to stay the night in the Mannon house?

4. Lavinia tells Orin that Ezra says Orin does one of the _________ things he sees in the war.

5. What is the name of the islander that Orin taunts Christine about?

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