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Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill
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"Homecoming": Act I, Scene One, Part I
"Homecoming": Act I, Scene One, Part Two
"Homecoming": Act II
"Homecoming": Act III
"Homecoming": Act IV
"The Hunted":Act I
"The Hunted": Act II
"The Hunted": Act III
"The Hunted": Act IV
"The Hunted": Act V
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Lavinia Mannon
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Christine Mannon
Ezra Mannon
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'Homecoming': Act 1, Scene One, Part 1
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'Homecoming': Act 2
'Homecoming': Act 3
'Homecoming': Act 4
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'The Hunted': Act 2
'The Hunted': Act 3
'The Hunted': Act 4
'The Hunted': Act 5
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Who famously elaborated a theory of "Oedipal" desire?
Eugene O'Neill
Carl Jung
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud
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Where does O'Neill situate the agency that drives the plot of the plays?
With individual characters
With fate
With warring Greek gods
With socio-historical forces
3
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What is the main object of mourning in the trilogy?
The decaying family house
Orin's unrequited love
Ezra Mannon's death
The Blessed Islands
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What two themes are entwined in the fantasies that characters have about the Blessed Island natives?
Exile and return
Empathy and compassion
Love and hatred
Race and sex
5
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___ evokes the lifelike masks that the repressed Mannons wear.
Ezra's headstone
The Mannon house
The old oak tree
The old wagon
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