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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nina tell Marsden that Darrell did after kissing her?
(a) Ran from the room.
(b) Looked disgusted with himself.
(c) Looked afraid.
(d) Cried.

2. What does Evans fear in Act 4?
(a) That Nina loves him too much.
(b) That his mother died.
(c) That he's sterile.
(d) That Nina is dying.

3. What does Nina complain to her father about in Part 1, Act 1?
(a) His stinginess with money.
(b) Being lectured by him.
(c) His forcing her to marry.
(d) His lack of love.

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

5. What is Evans' aunt's name?
(a) Bessie.
(b) Hattie.
(c) Tilda.
(d) Zelda.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has passed between Act 1 and Act 2?

2. Who found Professor Leeds' body?

3. Who does Nina say it seemed as if might have been the real father of her first baby?

4. What does Mrs. Evans' tell Nina about the Evans family?

5. How much training has Nina had as a nurse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Darrell feel about his family in Act 9?

2. What do Nina's thoughts reveal about her father in Act 2?

3. What does Evans ask of Marsden in Act 2? Why? How does Marsden respond?

4. What does Marsden say about his writing in Act 8?

5. What does Darrell expose in Act 7 about his feelings of the family situation? What does he feel about Gordon?

6. What do Marsden's thoughts reveal about Nina in Act 3?

7. What are Marsden's thoughts at the beginning of Act 2?

8. What does Leeds do at the end of Act 1? What are his thoughts?

9. Why does Nina say she's going away in Act 1?

10. What does Marsden ask Darrell about regarding his mother in Act 4? What is his response?

(see the answer keys)

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