Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1928

1930

1919

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

The View from the Bridge

Mourning Becomes Electra

Desire Under the Elms

The Iceman Cometh
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?

Nina

Marsden

Darrell

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?

A car crash

Illness

In the war

Suicide
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.

cool

composed

elegant

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.

French

Art

the Classics

History
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His father

His mother

His aunt

His sister
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Healthy

Sick

Angry

Vibrant
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

He hated Gordon.

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

strained

plain

pretty

athletic
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Stay in a convent

Travel to Europe

Work at a sanitarium

Visit a cemetery
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He has incestuous love for her.

He is scared for her.

He loves her too much.

He wants her to take care of him.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.

brother

mother figure

lover

father figure
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.

young

preppy

intellectual

guileless
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Nurses them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them

Hurts them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

a doctor

serious and professional

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

Despairing

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

gets married

leaves the family home forever

has a child

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

It is boring.

It is warm.

It is strange.

It is lovely.
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

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 has another secret family.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.

Nina abort the child

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

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