Strange Interlude Quizzes

Strange Interlude Quiz 1

1 What year was the play written?

1950

1928

1930

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

Mourning Becomes Electra

The View from the Bridge

The Iceman Cometh

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

Gordon Shaw

Gordon Evans

Madeline

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

Darrell

Marsden

Nina

Leeds
5 How did Gordon die?

In the war

Suicide

A car crash

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

elderly

cool

elegant

composed
7 Leeds studies ___.

History

French

the Classics

Art
8 Who is Marsden obsessed with?

His aunt

His sister

His father

His mother
9 How is Nina described by the men?

Sick

Healthy

Angry

Vibrant
10 Why does Leeds feel guilty?

He hated Gordon.

He told Gordon not to sleep with Nina.

He didn't care what happened to Nina.

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

pretty

strained

athletic

plain
12 Where does Nina plan to go?

Visit a cemetery

Stay in a convent

Work at a sanitarium

Travel to Europe
13 Why doesn't Leeds want her go?

He has incestuous love for her.

He wants her to take care of him.

He loves her too much.

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

lover

brother

mother figure

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

intellectual

guileless

preppy

young
16 What does Nina do with the soldiers?

Sleeps with them

Hurts them

Nurses them

Condemns them
17 Darrell is ___.

handsome

a doctor

serious and professional

hot-blooded
18 Darrell wants Nina to ___.

marry Marsden

marry Sam

marry him

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

Confused

Emotionless

Happy

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

leaves the family home forever

gets married

joins a convent

has a child
21 What does Nina think about the Evanses' house?

It is boring.

It is warm.

It is strange.

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

A novelist

A lawyer

A musician

A professor
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 has another secret family.

Sam is very sick and going to die soon.

Sam's family has a curse.

Sam is not her son.
25 Mrs. Evans suggests all the following except ___.

Nina never tell Sam what she knows

Nina find a new husband

Nina abort the child

Nina have a baby by another man

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