Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1950

1928

1919

1930
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?

Desire Under the Elms

The Iceman Cometh

The View from the Bridge

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

Gordon Shaw

Gordon Evans

Professor Leeds

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

Darrell

Leeds

Marsden

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?

A car crash

Illness

In the war

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

elegant

cool

composed

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.

the Classics

History

French

Art
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His father

His sister

His aunt

His mother
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Vibrant

Healthy

Sick

Angry
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 ___.

strained

athletic

pretty

plain
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 is scared for her.

He has incestuous love for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

He loves her too much.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

brother

father figure

mother figure

lover
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.

preppy

young

intellectual

guileless
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Nurses them

Hurts them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

a doctor

serious and professional

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry him

marry Sam

marry Marsden

remain single
19 How does Nina feel about her father's death?

Emotionless

Confused

Happy

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

joins a convent

gets married

has a child

leaves the family home forever
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is warm.

It is lovely.

It is strange.

It is boring.
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?

Marsden's

One of the soldier's

Darrell's

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

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam's family has a curse.
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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