Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1928

1919

1930

1950
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?

The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh

Mourning Becomes Electra

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

Professor Leeds

Gordon Shaw

Madeline

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

Leeds

Marsden

Nina

Darrell
5 How did Gordon die?

A car crash

Illness

In the war

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

cool

composed

elegant

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.

the Classics

History

Art

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His mother

His aunt

His sister

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Angry

Healthy

Sick

Vibrant
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He got Gordon killed.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.

plain

athletic

strained

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Travel to Europe

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent

Visit a cemetery
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He loves her too much.

He wants her to take care of him.

He is scared for her.

He has incestuous love for her.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

father figure

lover

brother

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

preppy

young

guileless

intellectual
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Hurts them

Nurses them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.

serious and professional

handsome

hot-blooded

a doctor
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Marsden

remain single

marry him

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

Happy

Confused

Despairing

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

leaves the family home forever

joins a convent

has a child

gets married
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is lovely.

It is boring.

It is strange.

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

A professor

A musician

A novelist

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

Darrell's

Sam's

Marsden's

One of the soldier's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

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 abort the child

Nina have a baby by another man

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