Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1930

1928

1950

1919
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms

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

Gordon Shaw

Professor Leeds

Gordon Evans
4 Which character is the first to reveal the technique of the aside?
Marsden

Darrell

Nina

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?
Suicide

A car crash

In the war

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

elderly

elegant

cool
7 Leeds studies ___.
French

the Classics

History

Art
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His sister

His mother

His father

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

Sick

Angry

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

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

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

pretty

strained

plain
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Visit a cemetery

Travel to Europe

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He is scared for her.

He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love 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 ___.
guileless

preppy

young

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

Condemns them

Nurses them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
serious and professional

handsome

a doctor

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Marsden

marry Sam

remain single

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

Emotionless

Confused

Despairing
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
joins a convent

leaves the family home forever

has a child

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

It is warm.

It is strange.

It is boring.
22 What is Marsden's profession?
A professor

A novelist

A lawyer

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

One of the soldier's

Marsden's

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

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina abort the child

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina find a new husband

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