Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1928

1919

1950

1930
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?

The Iceman Cometh

Mourning Becomes Electra

Desire Under the Elms

The View from the Bridge
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?

Gordon Shaw

Professor Leeds

Gordon Evans

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

Leeds

Marsden

Nina

Darrell
5 How did Gordon die?

Illness

Suicide

In the war

A car crash
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.

cool

composed

elegant

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.

History

French

Art

the Classics
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His mother

His aunt

His father

His sister
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Healthy

Vibrant

Angry

Sick
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He hated Gordon.

He got Gordon killed.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.

strained

plain

athletic

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Visit a cemetery

Travel to Europe

Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He has incestuous love for her.

He loves her too much.

He wants her to take care of him.

He is scared for her.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

lover

mother figure

brother

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

preppy

intellectual

guileless

young
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Nurses them

Sleeps with them

Hurts them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.

hot-blooded

handsome

a doctor

serious and professional
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Sam

remain single

marry Marsden

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

Confused

Happy

Despairing

Emotionless
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.

leaves the family home forever

joins a convent

gets married

has a child
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is strange.

It is warm.

It is lovely.

It is boring.
22 What is Marsden's profession?

A musician

A novelist

A lawyer

A professor
23 Nina is pregnant at the beginning of Act Three with whose baby?

One of the soldier's

Darrell's

Marsden's

Sam's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.

Nina find a new husband

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina abort the child

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