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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Evans trying to do at the beginning of Act 4?

2. What does Nina complain to her father about in Part 1, Act 1?

3. Who did Nina bring with her in Act 2?

4. How old is Evans' mother in Act 3?

5. Who speaks first in soliloquy in Part 1, Act 1 (the beginning of the play)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who interrupts Gordon and Madeline in Act 9? What are this character's thoughts about them?

2. What do Evans and his mother talk about in Act 3? What does she ask him about Nina?

3. What does Darrell tell Nina about Gordon's behavior towards him in Act 7?

4. What does Nina say to her father and Marsden regarding her last night with Gordon?

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

6. What does Nina say about God's indifference in Act 2?

7. Why does Leeds believe that Nina hates him?

8. What does Nina think about doing in the end of Act 9? What are her feelings?

9. What does Darrell say regarding romanticism in Act 5?

10. What does Darrell tell Marsden about Nina's behavior at the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the "non-character" of Gordon (the first). How does this character affect the action of the play? How is he regarded by the characters in the play?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how foreshadowing is employed in Strange Interlude. What events in particular are foreshadowed? Who speaks this dialogue?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Nina. How old is she in the beginning of the play, and at the end? What is her demeanor? How does this character change in the course of the play?

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