Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1930

1919

1950

1928
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The View from the Bridge

Mourning Becomes Electra

The Iceman Cometh

Desire Under the Elms
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?
Madeline

Gordon Evans

Gordon Shaw

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

Darrell

Marsden

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?
Illness

Suicide

In the war

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

elegant

composed

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.
Art

French

the Classics

History
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His sister

His aunt

His mother

His father
9 How is Nina described by the men?
Healthy

Sick

Angry

Vibrant
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 ___.
athletic

pretty

plain

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 wants her to take care of him.

He loves her too much.

He is scared for her.

He has incestuous love for her.
14 Marsden becomes a ___ to Nina.
mother figure

brother

father figure

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

guileless

intellectual

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

Hurts them

Condemns them

Sleeps with them
17 Darrell is ___.
hot-blooded

a doctor

serious and professional

handsome
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry Marsden

remain single

marry him

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

Confused

Happy

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

joins a convent

gets married

leaves the family home forever
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is lovely.

It is boring.

It is strange.

It is warm.
22 What is Marsden's profession?
A lawyer

A musician

A professor

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

Marsden's

Sam's

One of the soldier's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam is not her son.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam's family has a curse.

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

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

Nina have a baby by another man

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