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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Act 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nina say when Darrell asks her to marry him in Act 9?
(a) Once we kill my husband.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) Tomorrow.

2. What does Darrell tell Evans before he leaves in Act 5?
(a) He is marrying Nina.
(b) Nina is leaving him.
(c) Nina is pregnant.
(d) His child is someone else's.

3. What does Nina say that the present is in Act 8?
(a) A forgotten memory.
(b) Misery.
(c) A hateful thing.
(d) A strange interlude.

4. Who speaks first in soliloquy in Part 1, Act 1 (the beginning of the play)?
(a) Leeds.
(b) Nina.
(c) Marsden.
(d) Evans.

5. Who says, "Now, well, at least I've improved. I'm not afraid of my own shadow anymore"?
(a) Marsden.
(b) Nina.
(c) Evans.
(d) Darrell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "How we poor monkeys hide from ourselves behind the sounds of called words"?

2. Why does Nina say she must go away in Act 1?

3. Why does Leeds insist that Nina not leave in Act 1?

4. What does Marsden say about Gordon's family?

5. Who has Nina taught to take care of her father while she's gone?

(see the answer key)

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