WorksheetsWaiting for Godot
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the philosophy that backbones Waiting for Godot?
a)
Romanticism
b)
Nihilism
c)
Absurdism
d)
Republicanism
2.
Who is the author of Waiting for Godot?
a)
Malcolm Gladwell
b)
Albert Camus
c)
Samuel Beckett
d)
Stephen King
3.
After what war was Waiting for Godot written?
a)
World War 1
b)
World War 2
c)
Vietnam War
d)
Cold War
4.
How do Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo) get to where they are in the beginning of the play?
a)
Bus
b)
Train
c)
Walking
d)
We don't know
5.
What is Godot?
a)
A God
b)
A person
c)
A bird
d)
We don't know
6.
Absurdism is a branch of what philosophical school of thought?
a)
Existentialism
b)
Metaphysics
c)
Epistemology
d)
Agnosticism
7.
Does Godot ever show up?
a)
Yes
b)
No
8.
What greatly influenced the existentialist thinkers?
a)
Rock & Roll
b)
Nature
c)
A bad trip
d)
The World Wars and the unbelievable, godless pain and agony on a massive scale never before concieved
9.
Which other author that we've read also has themes of the Absurd?
a)
W. B. Yeats
b)
Franz Kafka
c)
Woolf
d)
T. S. Eliot
10.
Why is Pozzo blind in the second act?
a)
His eyes were taken out by a bird
b)
He got the ol' eye for an eye treatment
c)
He was blind the whole time
d)
We don't know
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