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

Mourning Becomes Electra

The View from the Bridge

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

Gordon Evans

Madeline

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

Nina

Marsden

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?
Illness

In the war

Suicide

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

cool

elderly

elegant
7 Leeds studies ___.
Art

the Classics

History

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His sister

His father

His mother

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

Vibrant

Healthy

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

He got Gordon killed.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

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

plain

strained

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

Travel to Europe

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He wants her to take care of him.

He is scared for her.

He has incestuous love for her.

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

mother figure

brother

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

young

guileless

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

Hurts them

Nurses them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
a doctor

handsome

hot-blooded

serious and professional
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
remain single

marry him

marry Marsden

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

Emotionless

Despairing

Confused
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
gets married

has a child

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 novelist

A lawyer

A musician

A professor
23 Nina is pregnant at the beginning of Act Three with whose baby?
One of the soldier's

Sam's

Marsden's

Darrell's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina find a new husband

Nina abort the child

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