Plays Quiz

"Theatergoing is a communal act, moviegoing a solitary one." --Robert Brustein

The answers appear after the last question, number 16.

1. Leontes, Hermione, and Polixenes are characters in what Shakespeare play?

a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. Macbeth
c. The Winter's Tale
d. Romeo and Juliet

2. In Ibsen's The Wild Duck, what is the profession of Hjalmar Ekdal?

a. photographer
b. chef
c. lumberjack
d. soldier

3. Martha and George fight in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Who wrote it?

a. William Shakespeare
b. Harriet Nelson
c. Arthur Miller
d. Edward Albee

4. Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot were what?

a. priests
b. tramps
c. screenwriters
d. nurses

5. What Dylan Thomas play takes place in a Welsh fishing village during one day?

a. Above and Beyond
b. The Fish are Biting
c. Our Town
d. Under Milk Wood

6. Who is Uncle Vanya's niece?

a. Gretchen
b. Helen
c. Sonya
d. Madge

7. Stanley Kowalski and Blanch DuBois are characters in what play?

a. The Merchant of Venice
b. Death of a Salesman
c. A Streetcar Named Desire
d. Under the Elm Tree

8. Which play did Thornton Wilder write?

a. The Skin of Our Teeth
b. My Town
c. Death of a Salesman
d. A Raisin in the Sun

9. Mrs. Malaprop misuses words in what play by Richard Sheridan?

a. The Birds
b. The Rivals
c. The Friends
d. The Witty Nun

10. A Raisin in the Sun was written by what black playwright?

a. Lorraine Hansberry
b. Bessie Smith
c. Neil Simon
d. Steve Martin

11. Thornton Wilder's Our Town takes place in what state?

a. Utah
b. Maine
c. New Hampshire
d. Delaware

12. What army does Barbara belong to in Shaw's play Major Barbara?

a. British
b. Salvation
c. French
d. Mexican

13. The barflies in The Iceman Cometh reveal what?

a. pipe dreams
b. toes
c. ages of their children
d. crooked teeth

14. Nora and Torvald Helmer are the major characters in what play?

a. A Thousand Clowns
b. The Thin Man
c. Santa's Hut
d. A Doll's House

15. Arthur Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman in what year?

a. 1932
b. 1985
c. 1949
d. 1973

16. Who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

a. Dr. Seuss
b. Tennessee Williams
c. Anton Chekhov
d. Arthur Miller

Answers: 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b, 5-d, 6-c, 7-c, 8-a, 9-b, 10-a, 11-c, 12-b, 13-a, 14-d, 15-c, 16-b

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