Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1928

1930

1950

1919
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The Iceman Cometh

Mourning Becomes Electra

The View from the Bridge

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

Madeline

Professor Leeds

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

Leeds

Darrell

Nina
5 How did Gordon die?
In the war

Suicide

A car crash

Illness
6 Marsden is described as all the following except ___.
composed

elegant

cool

elderly
7 Leeds studies ___.
the Classics

History

Art

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His aunt

His father

His sister

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

Healthy

Angry

Sick
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?
He hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He got Gordon killed.

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

strained

athletic

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

Travel to Europe

Visit a cemetery

Work at a sanitarium
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?
He loves her too much.

He has incestuous love for her.

He is scared for her.

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

lover

brother

mother figure
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
young

guileless

preppy

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

Sleeps with them

Hurts them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.
serious and professional

a doctor

handsome

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
remain single

marry him

marry Sam

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

Happy

Despairing

Emotionless
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
joins a convent

gets married

has a child

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

It is lovely.

It is warm.

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

A professor

A novelist

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

Sam's

Darrell's

One of the soldier's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam has another secret family.

Sam is not her son.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam's family has a curse.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.
Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina abort the child

Nina have a baby by another man

Nina find a new husband

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