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 Iceman Cometh

The View from the Bridge

Desire Under the Elms
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

Darrell

Nina

Marsden
5 How did Gordon die?
Illness

A car crash

Suicide

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

elderly

cool

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.
the Classics

French

Art

History
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His mother

His sister

His father

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

Healthy

Sick

Angry
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He didn't care what happened to Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

He hated Gordon.

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

plain

athletic

strained
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium

Visit a cemetery

Travel to Europe
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He is scared for her.

He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love for her.

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

brother

lover

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

preppy

intellectual

young
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Condemns them

Hurts them

Sleeps with them

Nurses them
17 Darrell is ___.
hot-blooded

a doctor

serious and professional

handsome
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Sam

marry Marsden

marry him

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

Confused

Despairing

Emotionless
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
has a child

leaves the family home forever

joins a convent

gets married
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 professor

A novelist

A musician

A lawyer
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's family has a curse.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.
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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