Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1928

1950

1919

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

Mourning Becomes Electra

The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?

Gordon Shaw

Madeline

Professor Leeds

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

Nina

Darrell

Marsden

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?

A car crash

Suicide

Illness

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

cool

elegant

elderly

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.

Art

French

History

the Classics
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His sister

His aunt

His mother

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Healthy

Vibrant

Angry

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 ___.

pretty

strained

plain

athletic
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Visit a cemetery

Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium

Travel to Europe
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He loves her too much.

He is scared for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

He has incestuous love for her.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

father figure

brother

mother figure

lover
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.

young

preppy

intellectual

guileless
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Sleeps with them

Condemns them

Nurses them

Hurts them
17 Darrell is ___.

hot-blooded

handsome

serious and professional

a doctor
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Sam

marry Marsden

marry him

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

Confused

Happy

Emotionless

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

leaves the family home forever

gets married

has a child

joins a convent
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is boring.

It is lovely.

It is warm.

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

A lawyer

A musician

A novelist

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

Darrell's

Sam's

Marsden's

One of the soldier's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is not her son.

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

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina find a new husband

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina abort the child

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