Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1928

1919

1930

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

The View from the Bridge

Desire Under the Elms

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

Professor Leeds

Gordon Shaw

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

Darrell

Marsden

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?
In the war

Suicide

Illness

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

elderly

cool

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.
French

History

Art

the Classics
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His mother

His father

His sister

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

Angry

Healthy

Sick
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He got Gordon killed.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He hated Gordon.

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

strained

athletic

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent

Travel to Europe

Visit a cemetery
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

He is scared for her.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.
brother

lover

father figure

mother figure
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
guileless

young

preppy

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

Condemns them

Nurses them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
handsome

serious and professional

a doctor

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

marry him

remain single

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

Happy

Emotionless

Despairing
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 boring.

It is warm.

It is strange.
22 What is Marsden's profession?
A novelist

A musician

A professor

A lawyer
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's family has a curse.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

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

Nina abort the child

Nina find a new husband

Nina have a baby by another man

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