Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?
1928

1919

1930

1950
2 Which of the following is not an O'Neill play?
The View from the Bridge

Desire Under the Elms

The Iceman Cometh

Mourning Becomes Electra
3 Which of the following characters does not appear onstage?
Gordon Evans

Professor Leeds

Gordon Shaw

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

Darrell

Leeds

Marsden
5 How did Gordon die?
A car crash

In the war

Illness

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

cool

elderly

elegant
7 Leeds studies ___.
Art

the Classics

History

French
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?
His sister

His father

His mother

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 hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He got Gordon killed.
11 Nina is described as all the following except ___.
athletic

strained

pretty

plain
12 Where does Nina plan to go?
Visit a cemetery

Travel to Europe

Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium
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

father figure

lover

brother
15 Sam is all of the following except ___.
preppy

young

intellectual

guileless
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?
Hurts them

Sleeps with them

Nurses them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.
handsome

hot-blooded

a doctor

serious and professional
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.
marry him

marry Sam

marry Marsden

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

Confused

Happy

Emotionless
20 Nina decides she will feel happy if she ___.
gets married

has a child

leaves the family home forever

joins a convent
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?
It is strange.

It is boring.

It is lovely.

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

A lawyer

A musician

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

One of the soldier's

Marsden's

Darrell's
24 What does Mrs. Evans reveal to Nina?
Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam has another secret family.

Sam is not her son.

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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