Eugene O’Neill
“Life is for
each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”
Eugene O’Neill
Quiz#1
Mourning becomes Electra
By
Eugene O’Neill
1. In “Homecoming Elizabeth’s murder functions as climax and closes
the play.
T F
2. In “Homecoming” rising action consists of the confrontation
between Ezra and Christine. T F
3. In “The Hunted”, rising action consists of the revelations of
Brant’s murder to Christine.
T
F
4. Breaks follow the first two climaxes leading onto the townsfolk
scenes that open the subsequent plays is the falling action of the play
“Mourning becomes Electra”. T F
5. “Mourning becomes Electra” was largely written in Britain from
1926-1931.
T F
6. “Mourning becomes Electra” was published in1932. T F
7. Tone of “Mourning becomes Electra” is tragic. T F
8. “Mourning becomes Electra” opens in the time of present
tense. T
F
9. Time setting of “Mourning becomes Electra” is spring or summer
1865-1866.
T
F
10. Place setting of “Mourning becomes Electra” is the Mannon house
in New England which is a harbor in East London . T F
11. “Mourning becomes Electra” premiered on Subway at the Guild
Theatre on October 26, 1931 .
T
F
12. “Mourning becomes Electra” ran for 150 performances before
closing in
March 1932. T
F
13. The story of “Mourning becomes Electra” is an update of the
Greek myths of
“Crestes”. T F
14. Agarmemmon of “Orestes” is a Colonel Ezra Mannon in
“Mourning becomes Electra”.
T F
15. Clytemnestra of “Orestes” is Christine of “Mourning becomes
Electra”. T F
16. Orestes of “Orestes” is Orin of “Mourning becomes Electra”. T F
17. Electra of “Orestes” is Lavinia of “Mourning becomes Electra”. T F
18. “Mourning becomes Electra” is divided into three plays titled
“Homecoming”, “The Hunted”, and “The Shanted”.
Quiz#2
Eugene
O’Neill-Life and works
- O'Neill was born in the theatre. T F
- O'Neill’s father, James O'Neill, was a successful touring actor in the last quarter of the 19th century. T F
- O'Neill’s
mother, Elizabeth, accompanied her husband back and forth across the
country, settling down only briefly for the birth of her first son, James,
Jr., and of
- Eugene, who was born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains, and backstage. T F
- O'Neill
was educated at boarding schools--
- O'Neill’s
winters were spent at the family's only permanent home, a modest house
overlooking the
- O'Neill
attended
- O'Neill, recovering briefly at the age of 22, he held a job for a few months as a reporter and contributor to the poetry column of the New London Telegraph but soon came down with tuberculosis. T F
- O'Neill
was confined to the Gaylord Farm Sanitarium in
- O'Neill's first efforts were awkward melodramas. T F
- A theatre critic persuaded O'Neill’s father to send him to Harvard to study with George Pierce Baker in his famous playwriting course. T F
- O'Neill's first appearance as a playwright came in the summer of 1916. T F
- By the
time O'Neill’s first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon, was produced on
Broadway,
- Beyond the Horizon impressed the critics with its tragic realism, won for O'Neill the first of four Nobel prizes in drama--others were for Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day's Journey into Night--and brought him to the attention of a wider theatre public. T F
- After Marlow and Shaw, O'Neill became the most widely translated and produced dramatist. T F
- Between 1920 and 1943 O'Neill completed 20 long plays. T F
- Among O'Neill’s most-celebrated long plays is Anna Christie. T F
- The first full-length play in which O'Neill successfully evoked the starkness and inevitability of Greek tragedy that he felt in his own life was Desire under the Elms. T F
- In The Great God Brown, O'Neill dealt with a major theme that he expressed more effectively in later plays--the conflict between idealism and materialism.
T F
- One of O'Neill's enduring masterpieces, Mourning Becomes Electra, represents the playwright's most complete use of Greek forms, themes, and characters. T F
- One of O'Neill's enduring masterpieces, The Great God Brown, represents the playwright's most complete use of Greek forms, themes, and characters. T F
- The Iceman Cometh, the most complex and perhaps the finest of the O'Neill tragedies, followed in1938, although it did not appear on Broadway until 1946.
T F
- O'Neill’s elder son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (by his first wife, Kathleen Jenkins), committed suicide at 30. T F
- O'Neill’s younger son, Shane (by his second wife, Agnes Boulton), drifted into a life of emotional instability. T F
- O'Neill’s daughter, Oona (also by Agnes Boulton), was cut out of his life when, at 18, she infuriated him by marrying Charlie Chaplin, who was O'Neill's age. T F
- In
1936 the
- O'Neill's final years were spent in happiness. T F
- Unable to work, O'Neill longed for his death and sat waiting for it in a NY hotel, seeing no one except his doctor, a nurse, and his third wife, Carlotta Monterey. T F
- O'Neill died as a lively figure as any he had created for the stage. T F
- O'Neill was the only American novelist ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. T F
Quiz#3
Mourning becomes Electra
1-What is the name of Brant's ship?
(A) Atlantis
(B) The Blessed Isles
(C) The Flying Trades
(D) The Argo
2-What is the name of the Mannons' maid?
(A) Hazel
(B) Hannah
(C) Mrs. Hills
(D) Mrs. Borden
3-What is Christine's color?
(A) Copper
(B) Gold
(C) Black
(D) Green
4-From where does Christine get the name of the poison that
kills Ezra?
(A) Ezra's books
(B) Brant's advice
(C) Her father's books
(D) The local veterinarian
5-Where do Lavinia and Orin travel?
(A) India
(B) South America
(C) Japan
(D) China
6-What was Marie Brantôme's occupation?
(A) She was a teacher
(B) She was a maid
(C) She was a cook
(D) She was a nurse
7-Who is Ezra Mannon's counterpart in The Oresteia?
(A) Orestes
(B) Agamemnon
(C) Aeschylus
(D) Priam
8-Whose portrait does not hang in the Mannon house?
(A) Abe Lincoln's
(B) Abe Mannon's
(C) George Washington's
(D) Ezra Mannon's
9-In killing Brant, Orin fantasizes that he has killed whom?
(A) Himself
(B) Ezra
(C) Both himself and his father
(D) Neither himself nor his father
10-In her last declarations of love to Peter, whose name
does Lavinia cry?
(A) Ezra's
(B) Orin's
(C) Christine's
(D) Adam's
11-Where does Orin kill himself?
(A) In the sitting room
(B) In the hallway
(C) In Ezra's bedroom
(D) In the study
12-Where does Christine kill herself?
(A) In the sitting room
(B) In the hallway
(C) In Ezra's bedroom
(D) In the study
13-Who finds Orin's dead body?
(A) Hazel
(B) Lavinia
(C) Seth
(D) Peter
14-How is Brant related to Ezra?
(A) He is his brother
(B) He is his uncle
(C) He is his stepbrother
(D) He is his cousin
15-What is the second song the Chantyman sings to Brant?
(A) Shenandoah
(B) Hanging Johnny
(C) A Sailor Likes His Bottle
(D) Pirate Jenny
16-Which of the following do not figure as
"islands" in the play?
(A) Christine
(B) Death
(C) Hazel
(D) Lavinia
17-Who is Orin's counterpart in The Oresteia?
(A) Priam
(B) Agamemnon
(C) Orestes
(D) Aeschylus
18-How does Lavinia make Peter leave her?
(A) She tells him she was a native's "fancy woman"
(B) She tells him she was Brant's "fancy woman"
(C) She tells him she was her father's "fancy
woman"
(D) She tells him she was her brother's "fancy
woman"
19-Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her?
(A) New York
(B) Boston
(C) Both New York
and Boston
(D) Neither New
York nor Boston
20-Who does not address Ezra's portrait at some point in the
play?
(A) Lavinia
(B) Christine
(C) Brant
(D) Orin
21-Who does not wear a mask-like face?
(A) Seth
(B) Brant
(C) Ames
(D) Orin
22-Where does Lavinia put her mother's pillbox?
(A) In Orin's pocket
(B) On Ezra's desk
(C) On Ezra's corpse
(D) In Orin's pants
23-O'Neill was the first American to win what prize?
(A) The Silver Bear
(B) The Medal of the Legion d'Honneur
(C) The Palme d'Or
(D) The Nobel
24-Who is Christine's counterpart in The Oresteia?
(A) Electra
(B) Clytemnestra
(C) Iphigenia
(D) Nemesis
25-What is Lavinia's nickname?
(A) Electra
(B) Vinnie
(C) Laverne
(D)Vin
Quiz#4
Mourning
becomes Electra
1.__________ is a wife of Ezra
Mannon.
- Catherine
- Christine
- Lavinia
- ________ is a daughter of Ezra Mannon.
- Prim
- Susana
- Lavinia
- Liz
- ________ is a Brigadier General.
- Seth
- Ezra Mannon
- David
- Francis
- ______ is a gardener of the Mannons.
- Ezra Mannon
- Francis
- David
- Seth
- Seth tells that town people are gossiping about the illicit relationship between Christine and Captain_______.
- Mike
- Tony
- Adam Brant
- Peter Niles
- Ezra Mannon is tall man of ________.
- 54
- 57
- 58
- 59
- ______ is the son of Mannons.
- Seth
- Adam Brant
- Orin
- Peter Niles
- ________ is a garrulous and gossiping carpenter.
- Seth Ames
- Amos
- Mamos Ames
- Lamos Ames
- Christine is a distinctly handsome woman of copper and _______ hair.
- Silver
- Golden
- Iron
- Bronze
- Christine’s face gives the impression of “wonderfully life like_________ mask”.
- Green
- Red
- Golden
- Pale
- Seth implies to Lavinia that_________ David is Mannon’s son.
- Adam
- Francis
- Christopher
- Mathew
- Lavinia comforts her mother about her affair with_________.
- Captain cook
- Captain Brant
- Captain Seth
- Captain George
- Ezra Mannons returns home from___________.
- War
- Civil war
- War on terror
- Media war
- When Ezra suffers from heart attack Christine gives him ______ instead of medicine.
- Bread
- Milk
- Tomato
- Poison
- ___________ enters as Ezra gasps his dying words: “she is guilty-not medicine.”
- Catherine
- Lavinia
- Christine
- Prim
- Christine loves _______________.
- Adam Brant
- Peter Niles
- Orin
- David
- Orin loves__________.
- Susana
- Hazel Niles
- Liz
- Catherine
- The love between Marie Bantome and David is pure_____ love of heart.
- Christian
- Heathen
- Pagan
- Jewish
- Christine tells Adam that she fell in love with him because his face reminded her of____________.
- Ezra’s
- Seth’s
- Orin’s
- Smith’s
20. What war has just
finished as the play begins?
(a) Spanish American War
(b) The American Revolution
(c)The American Civil War
(d) World War I
21. Who is the first
man who courts Lavinia?
(a) Peter
(b) Francis
(c) Ezra
(d) Taylor
22. Dr. Blake thought
that Ezra Mannon really died due to ________.
(a) Heart failure
(b) Love
(c) Cancer
(d) Bullet wound
23. Who is the man
whom Seth bet to stay in the Mannon's house overnight?
(a) Small
(b) Mackel
(c) Silva
(d) Ames
24. Where do Christine
and Brant plan to sail away to?
(a) India
(b) China
(c) France
(d) England
25. In what room of
the Mannon house did Christine shoot herself?
(a)Bedroom
(b)Kitchen
(c)Study
(d)living room
26. Who does Orin give
the envelope with his script to in order to keep it safe?
(a) Hazel
(b) Francis
(c) Ezra
(d) Taylor
27. Lavinia marries
Peter.
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Not
given
28. What color dress
does Lavinia wear that her mother also wore?
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Green
(d) Red
29. As punishment for
herself, Lavinia decides to live in the Mannon house among the dead.
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Not given
Answer
Key
Quiz#1
1-False
2-True
3-True
4-True
5-False
6-False
7-True
8-True
9-True
10-False
11-False
12-True
13-False
14-False
15-True
16-True
17-True
18-False
Correct Answers
Quiz#1
1- Ezra’s
5- France
6-1931
10- Boston
11- Broadway
13- Orestes
14- General
18- The Haunted
Answer Key
Quiz#2
1-True
2-True
3-False
4-True
5-False
6-True
7-False
8-True
9-False
10-True
11-True
12-True
13-True
14-False
15-False
16-False
17-True
18-True
19-True
20-True
21-True
22-False
23-False
24-False
25-True
26-True
27-True
28-True
29-False
30-False
31-False
32-False
Correct
Answers
Quiz#2
3- Ella
5- Blood
7- Summers
9-24
14-1920
15- Pulitzer
16- Shakespeare
22- Mourning Becomes Electra
23-1939
24-40
29- Grim frustration
30- Boston
31- Broken and tragic
32- Playwright
Answer Key
Quiz#3
1-(B) The Blessed Isles
2-(B) Hannah
3-(D) Green
4-(C) Her father's books
5-(D) China
6-(D) She was a nurse
7-(B) Agamemnon
8-(A) Abe Lincoln's
9-(C) Both himself and his father
10-(D) Adam's
11-(D) In the study
12-(D) In the study
13-(D) Peter
14-(D) He is his cousin
15-(B) Hanging Johnny
16-(D) Lavinia
17-(C) Orestes
18-(A) She tells him she was a native's "fancy
woman"
19-(C) Both New
York and Boston
20-(C) Brant
21-(C) Ames
22-(C) On Ezra's corpse
23-(D) The Nobel
24-(B) Clytemnestra
25-(B) Vinnie
Answer
Key
Quiz#4
1- c-Christine
2-c- Lavinia
3-b- Ezra Mannon
4-d- Seth
5-c- Adam Brant
6-b-57
7-c- Orin
8-b- Amos Ames
9-d- Bronze
10-d- Pale
11-a- Adam
12-b- Captain Brant
13-b- Civil war
14-d- Poison
15-c- Christine
16-a- Adam Brant
17-b- Hazel Niles
18-c- Pagan
19-c- Orin’s
20-(c)The American Civil War
21-(a) Peter
22-(b) Love
23-(a) Small
24-(b) China
25-(c)Study
26-(a) Hazel
27-(b) False
28-(c) Green
29-(a) True
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