Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Last reviewed November 12, 2025

1 What year was the play written?

1930

1928

1950

1919
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?

The Iceman Cometh

The View from the Bridge

Desire Under the Elms

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

Professor Leeds

Gordon Shaw

Gordon Evans

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

Leeds

Darrell

Nina

Marsden
5 How did Gordon die?

Illness

In the war

Suicide

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

elderly

elegant

composed

cool
7 Leeds studies ___.

Art

the Classics

History

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His sister

His aunt

His father

His mother
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Vibrant

Sick

Angry

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He hated Gordon.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.

strained

pretty

plain

athletic
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent

Travel to Europe

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 has incestuous love for her.

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

lover

father figure

mother figure

brother
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.

young

intellectual

guileless

preppy
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Condemns them

Nurses them

Hurts them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.

serious and professional

a doctor

handsome

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?

Emotionless

Happy

Confused

Despairing
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 boring.

It is strange.

It is lovely.

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

A musician

A lawyer

A professor

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

One of the soldier's

Darrell's

Sam's

Marsden'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 have a baby by another man

Nina abort the child

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

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