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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the islander that Orin taunts Christine about?
(a) Avahanni.
(b) Abner.
(c) Ashanti.
(d) Ashmanni.

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

3. Where does Christine tell Brant it looks like she goes if they sail away together?
(a) A voyage of grief.
(b) Boston.
(c) Visiting friends.
(d) New York.

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

5. Hazel and Peter get a telegram from Lavinia and Orin, sent from where?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) The islands.
(d) Tokyo.

6. Who does Christine call out to protect Adam Brant at the end of Play Two, Act Three?
(a) Orin.
(b) David.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Lavinia.

7. Where do Orin and Lavinia go instead of visiting their cousins?
(a) Boston.
(b) The islands.
(c) Portsmouth.
(d) New York.

8. Brant says the sea hates what?
(a) A coward.
(b) A liar.
(c) A lover.
(d) A murderer.

9. Orin tells Lavinia in the third act of Play Two that he never forgets what?
(a) The past.
(b) The war.
(c) Hazel's love.
(d) Christine's hair.

10. Lavinia tells Orin that their mother's suicide is an act of what?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Justice.
(c) Pride.
(d) Love.

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

12. Why does Brant have a pistol out as he tells the drunk shantyman on the wharf to show himself?
(a) There are robberies in port.
(b) There are mutiny on his ship.
(c) He thinks it's a ghost.
(d) He is afraid of Orin.

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

14. Looking down on the action of Play Two, Act Two is a portrait of a soldier from ____________ army.
(a) Grant's.
(b) Lee's.
(c) Washington's.
(d) King George's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lavinia force Orin to say doesn't exist at the beginning of the third play?

2. Who does Lavinia send to get Doctor Blake, after Christine kills herself?

3. What does Orin give to Hazel for safe keeping?

4. Who is Lavinia calling away to help in Play Three, Act Three?

5. How long is it before Brant's ship is due to sail from Boston again?

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