Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

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

1 What year was the play written?

1950

1930

1928

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

The View from the Bridge

Mourning Becomes Electra

Desire Under the Elms

The Iceman Cometh
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?

Gordon Evans

Gordon Shaw

Madeline

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

Leeds

Nina

Marsden

Darrell
5 How did Gordon die?

Suicide

In the war

Illness

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

cool

elderly

composed

elegant
7 Leeds studies ___.

French

History

the Classics

Art
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His aunt

His father

His mother

His sister
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 hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

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

strained

pretty

plain

athletic
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Travel to Europe

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

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 ___.

guileless

young

intellectual

preppy
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Hurts them

Nurses them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

hot-blooded

a doctor

serious and professional
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Marsden

remain single

marry Sam

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

Happy

Confused

Despairing

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

gets married

leaves the family home forever

has a child

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

It is boring.

It is strange.

It is warm.

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

A novelist

A professor

A lawyer

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

One of the soldier's

Sam's

Darrell's

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

Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

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

Nina find a new husband

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina abort the child

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