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Famous Plays/Playwrights

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which famous playwright wrote "Hamlet"?

a)

Christopher Marlowe

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Thomas Dekker

d)

John Webster

2.

Neil Simon wrote which of the following plays?

a)

Midsummer's Night Dream

b)

Medea

c)

The Odd Couple

d)

Arcadia

3.

Which famous African American playwright wrote "Fences"?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Lorraine Hansberry

c)

August Wilson

d)

James Baldwin

4.

Which famous playwright is from Independence, KS?

a)

Edward Albee

b)

Arthur Miller

c)

Thornton Wilder

d)

William Inge

5.

Which famous playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe?

a)

Oscar Wilde

b)

Tennessee Williams

c)

Arthur Miller

d)

August Wilson

6.

Which of the following Tennessee Williams play were adapted into movies?

a)

The Glass Menagerie

b)

A Streetcar Named Desire

c)

Summer and Smoke

d)

Battle of Angels

7.

Which of following is the oldest, known Greek play to this date?

a)

Everyman

b)

Lysistrata

c)

The Persians

d)

Noah's Ark

8.

Which play was written by Moliere?

a)

Volpone

b)

Antigone

c)

Othello

d)

Tartuffe

9.

Sophocles wrote which of the following plays?

a)

Medea

b)

Oedipus Rex

c)

Agamemnon

d)

Orestes

10.

Which famous playwright wrote "Waiting for Godot"?

a)

Samuel Beckett

b)

Edward Albee

c)

Eugene O'Niell

d)

Sean O'Casey