Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1930

1928

1919

1950
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
Desire Under the Elms

The View from the Bridge

Mourning Becomes Electra

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

Professor Leeds

Madeline

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

Marsden

Nina

Darrell
5 How did Gordon die?
In the war

A car crash

Suicide

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

composed

elegant

cool
7 Leeds studies ___.
French

History

the Classics

Art
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His father

His mother

His aunt

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

Sick

Angry

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

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.
pretty

strained

athletic

plain
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 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.
mother figure

father figure

brother

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

guileless

young

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

Hurts them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
serious and professional

hot-blooded

a doctor

handsome
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
remain single

marry Sam

marry Marsden

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

Confused

Happy

Emotionless
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
leaves the family home forever

joins a convent

has a child

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

It is warm.

It is lovely.

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

A musician

A lawyer

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

One of the soldier's

Sam's

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

Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam's family has a curse.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina have a baby by another man

Nina abort the child

Nina find a new husband

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

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