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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. A drunken sailor gives Brant the news of what, in Act 4 of The Hunted?
(a) Christine's death.
(b) Ezra's death.
(c) Lavinia's death.
(d) Orin's death.

2. Who is Lavinia's brother?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Brant.
(c) Orin.
(d) Seth.

3. What is Orin speaking to in the beginning of Act 3 of The Hunted?
(a) His father's portrait.
(b) His sister's corpse.
(c) His father's ashes.
(d) His father's body.

4. Who has died in Act 9 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Nina.
(b) Marsden.
(c) Evans.
(d) Gordon.

5. Who is Nina jealous of in Act 8 of Strange Interlude?
(a) Madeline.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Lavinia harbor a secret admiration?

2. Who does Lavinia ask Brant about in Act 3 of Homecoming?

3. Who has died in Act 8 of Strange Interlude?

4. Who enters with Lavinia and Peter in Act 1 of The Hunted?

5. How much time passes between Acts 7 and 8 in Strange Interlude?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Act Two set in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra? What discussion takes place between Lavinia and Christine here?

2. What is Nina jealous of in Act 8 of Strange Interlude? Who knows about this?

3. Who interrupts Gordon and Madeline in Act 9 of Strange Interlude? What are this character's thoughts about them?

4. Describe the foreshadowing which takes place in Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra.

5. How is Orin described as in The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra? What does he speak of when he arrives?

6. Discuss the characters of Hazel and Peter in the trilogy of Mourning Becomes Electra. What is their role, symbolically?

7. What is Orin writing in Act 2 of The Haunted, Mourning Becomes Electra? What is Lavinia's reaction?

8. Describe Ezra's return in Mourning Becomes Electra.

9. Describe the exposition which takes place at the beginning of Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra. Who is speaking, and what is discussed?

10. In The Hunted, Mourning Becomes Electra, Act 3, what do Orin and Lavinia discuss in the study?

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