Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1928

1919

1950

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

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms

The View from the Bridge
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?

Gordon Evans

Madeline

Professor Leeds

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

Leeds

Darrell

Marsden

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?

Illness

Suicide

In the war

A car crash
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.

elderly

cool

composed

elegant
7 Leeds studies ___.

Art

the Classics

History

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His mother

His sister

His aunt

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Vibrant

Healthy

Angry

Sick
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He hated Gordon.

He got Gordon killed.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

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

plain

pretty

strained

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 loves her too much.

He wants her to take care of him.

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

brother

mother figure

lover

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

young

guileless

intellectual

preppy
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Condemns them

Nurses them

Hurts them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.

serious and professional

a doctor

hot-blooded

handsome
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Sam

marry him

marry Marsden

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

Happy

Confused

Emotionless

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

has a child

joins a convent

leaves the family home forever

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

It is lovely.

It is strange.

It is warm.

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

A novelist

A professor

A musician

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

One of the soldier's

Sam's

Darrell's

Marsden'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 find a new husband

Nina abort the child

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

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