Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1930

1950

1928

1919
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?
Madeline

Professor Leeds

Gordon Evans

Gordon Shaw
4 Which character is the first to reveal the technique of the aside?
Nina

Leeds

Darrell

Marsden
5 How did Gordon die?
Suicide

Illness

A car crash

In the war
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.
elderly

elegant

cool

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.
History

French

Art

the Classics
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His mother

His sister

His aunt

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?
Sick

Angry

Vibrant

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 ___.
pretty

strained

plain

athletic
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 loves her too much.

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

mother figure

brother

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

young

guileless

intellectual
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Nurses them

Hurts them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
a doctor

handsome

hot-blooded

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

marry Marsden

remain single

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 ___.
joins a convent

has a child

leaves the family home forever

gets married
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is boring.

It is warm.

It is strange.

It is lovely.
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?
Marsden's

Darrell's

One of the soldier's

Sam's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is not her son.

Sam's family has a curse.
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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