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Repertory Theatre (Quiz #8)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A Pulitzer Prize winning play written by David Lindsay-Abaire about the way a family survives the loss of a four year old child.

a)

The Homecoming

b)

The Heidi Chronicles

c)

The Shadow Box

d)

Rabbit Hole

2.

A comedy by Moliere about a falsely pious and penniless fool who has arranged to marry the daughter of a wealthy man, and the families attempt to kick him out.

a)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

b)

Tartuffe

c)

The Adding Machine

d)

The Cherry Orchard

3.

A play by Anton Chekhov about an aristocratic Russian landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage.

a)

The Cherry Orchard

b)

The Adding Machine

c)

Tartuffe

d)

Waiting for Godot

4.

A play by Elmer Rice that focuses on an account at a large, faceless company, after he murders his boss when he discovers that he will be replaced by technology. It tells the story of his arrest, trial, execution, and excursion into the afterlife.

a)

Whose Afraid of Virgina Woolf

b)

The Heidi Chronicles

c)

Rabbit Hole

d)

The Adding Machine

5.

A play by Wendy Wasserstein that follows a woman from high school in the 1960s to her career as a successful art historian more than twenty years later.

a)

The Adding Machine

b)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

c)

The Shadow Box

d)

The Heidi Chronicles

6.

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play written by actor Michael Cristofer. The play focuses on three patients who are coming to the end of their lives, and their respective families. They are part of a psychological program where they live within the hospital grounds and have interviews with a psychiatrist.

a)

The Shadow Box

b)

Tartuffe

c)

The Homecoming

d)

Rabbit Hole

7.

A play by Harold Pinter a play set in North London about five men who are related, and the wife of one of the men. The play concerns the woman and her husband return to England, which has distinctly different symbolic and thematic implications.

a)

The Shadow Box

b)

The Homecoming

c)

The Adding Machine

d)

Waiting for Godot

8.

A play by Edward Albee that examines the complexities of a bitter and frustrated marriage of a middle-aged couple.

a)

The Cherry Orchard

b)

The Adding Machine

c)

Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

d)

Rabbit Hole

9.

A play by Samuel Becket in which two characters wait for the arrival of someone who never arrives.

a)

Waiting for Godot

b)

The Adding Machine

c)

Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead

d)

The Cherry Orchard

10.

An absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, that expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

a)

Tartuffe

b)

Waiting for Godot

c)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

d)

The Adding Machine