Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1930

1919

1950

1928
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?

Desire Under the Elms

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Iceman Cometh

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

Gordon Evans

Professor Leeds

Madeline

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

Marsden

Darrell

Nina

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?

Illness

A car crash

In the war

Suicide
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.

elderly

cool

elegant

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.

French

Art

History

the Classics
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His mother

His aunt

His sister

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Vibrant

Angry

Sick

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He hated Gordon.

He got Gordon killed.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

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

plain

pretty

athletic

strained
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent

Travel to Europe
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He has incestuous love for her.

He is scared for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

He loves her too much.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

father figure

brother

lover

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

intellectual

young

guileless

preppy
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Nurses them

Sleeps with them

Hurts them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

serious and professional

a doctor

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry him

marry Marsden

marry Sam

remain single
19 How does Nina feel about her father's death?

Confused

Despairing

Happy

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

leaves the family home forever

has a child

gets married

joins a convent
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is lovely.

It is warm.

It is strange.

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

A professor

A musician

A lawyer

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

Marsden's

One of the soldier's

Sam's

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

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is not her son.

Sam's family has a curse.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.

Nina find a new husband

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina abort the child

Nina have a baby by another man

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