Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1928

1930

1919

1950
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms

Mourning Becomes Electra
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?
Gordon Evans

Professor Leeds

Gordon Shaw

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

Marsden

Leeds

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?
A car crash

In the war

Suicide

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

elegant

cool

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.
History

the Classics

Art

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His father

His aunt

His mother

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

Sick

Angry

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He hated Gordon.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

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

athletic

plain

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Stay in a convent

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium

Travel to Europe
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love for her.

He is scared for her.

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

brother

father figure

lover
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
intellectual

guileless

young

preppy
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Condemns them

Nurses them

Sleeps with them

Hurts them
17 Darrell is ___.
hot-blooded

serious and professional

a doctor

handsome
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Sam

marry Marsden

remain single

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

Emotionless

Despairing

Happy
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
leaves the family home forever

gets married

joins a convent

has a child
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is lovely.

It is warm.

It is boring.

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

A musician

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 not her son.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam's family has a curse.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina have a baby by another man

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina abort the child

Nina find a new husband

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