Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1919

1930

1928

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

Desire Under the Elms

The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh
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?
Darrell

Marsden

Leeds

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?
Suicide

A car crash

In the war

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

composed

elderly

cool
7 Leeds studies ___.
History

the Classics

Art

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His father

His aunt

His sister

His mother
9 How is Nina described by the men?
Angry

Vibrant

Sick

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

He hated Gordon.

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

plain

pretty

strained
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 has incestuous love for her.

He loves her too much.

He is scared for her.

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

father figure

lover

brother
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
preppy

intellectual

guileless

young
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Sleeps with them

Nurses them

Condemns them

Hurts them
17 Darrell is ___.
a doctor

hot-blooded

handsome

serious and professional
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Sam

remain single

marry him

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

Confused

Happy

Despairing
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
has a child

gets married

joins a convent

leaves the family home forever
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is lovely.

It is strange.

It is boring.

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?
Sam's

Darrell's

One of the soldier'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 has another secret family.

Sam is not her son.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina abort the child

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