Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1919

1930

1950

1928
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The View from the Bridge

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?
Professor Leeds

Gordon Evans

Gordon Shaw

Madeline
4 Which character is the first to reveal the technique of the aside?
Marsden

Leeds

Darrell

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?
Suicide

A car crash

In the war

Illness
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.
cool

elegant

elderly

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.
Art

the Classics

French

History
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His father

His aunt

His mother

His sister
9 How is Nina described by the men?
Angry

Vibrant

Sick

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He hated Gordon.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He got Gordon killed.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.
athletic

plain

strained

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Travel to Europe

Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium

Visit a cemetery
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He loves her too much.

He is scared for her.

He has incestuous love for her.

He wants her to take care of him.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.
brother

mother figure

lover

father figure
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
guileless

preppy

intellectual

young
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Sleeps with them

Hurts them

Nurses them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.
handsome

a doctor

serious and professional

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Sam

marry Marsden

remain single

marry him
19 How does Nina feel about her father's death?
Emotionless

Happy

Confused

Despairing
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
joins a convent

leaves the family home forever

has a child

gets married
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is boring.

It is strange.

It is warm.

It is lovely.
22 What is Marsden's profession?
A novelist

A professor

A lawyer

A musician
23 Nina is pregnant at the beginning of Act Three with whose baby?
One of the soldier's

Sam's

Darrell's

Marsden's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam's family has a curse.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam is not her son.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina find a new husband

Nina abort the child

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina have a baby by another man

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