Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1950

1919

1928

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

The Iceman Cometh

The View from the Bridge

Desire Under the Elms

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

Gordon Shaw

Gordon Evans

Madeline

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

Darrell

Marsden

Leeds

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?

In the war

Suicide

A car crash

Illness
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 father

His sister

His mother

His aunt
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Sick

Angry

Vibrant

Healthy
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He hated Gordon.

He got Gordon killed.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

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

plain

athletic

strained

pretty
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Travel to Europe

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium

Stay in a convent
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He wants her to take care of him.

He has incestuous love for her.

He loves her too much.

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

mother figure

father figure

lover

brother
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.

intellectual

preppy

young

guileless
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Condemns them

Nurses them

Sleeps with them

Hurts them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

serious and professional

hot-blooded

a doctor
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Marsden

marry him

remain single

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

Despairing

Emotionless

Confused

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

leaves the family home forever

has a child

joins a convent

gets married
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is warm.

It is lovely.

It is strange.

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

A lawyer

A novelist

A musician

A professor
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 not her son.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam's family has a curse.

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

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina abort the child

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