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Advanced Repertory Theatre (Quiz #8)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A play by American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that chronicles the adult lives of two African-American brothers as they cope with poverty, racism, work, women, and their troubled upbringings.

a)

Hedda Gabler

b)

Topdog / Underdog

c)

The Hairy Ape

d)

Angels in America

2.

A Pulitzer Prize winning play by American playwright August Wilson that focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with their family piano which was decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.

a)

The Piano Lesson

b)

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

c)

Master Harold and the Boys

d)

The Bald Soprano

3.

A play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill about a beastly, unthinking laborer known as Yank as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich.

a)

The Piano Lesson

b)

The Hairy Ape

c)

Fool For Love

d)

August: Osage County

4.

A play by David Rabe that is first in a trilogy of plays about the Vietnam War. The story is bracketed by scenes depicting the death of the everyman-like title character, who mindlessly grabs a live grenade that is tossed into the Saigon brothel he is visiting.

a)

Master Harold and the Boys

b)

Fool for Love

c)

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

d)

Topdog / Underdog

5.

A play by Eugene Ionèsco that is an example of theatre of the absurd. Two families engage in meaningless banter, telling stories and relating nonsensical poems. The play devolves into a series of complete non-sequiturs with no resemblance to normal conversation.

a)

Hedda Gabler

b)

The Bald Soprano

c)

Angels in America

d)

August: Osage County

6.

A play by Athol Fugard that takes place in South Africa during apartheidera, and depicts how institutionalized racism, bigotry or hatred can become absorbed by those who live under it. The play is about the relationship between a young boy and his family's servants.

a)

Fool for Love

b)

Master Harold and the Boys

c)

The Piano Lesson

d)

The Hairy Ape

7.

A play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen about he famous daughter of General, who married George Tesman out of desperation, but soon finds life with him to be dull and tedious.

a)

Hedda Gabler

b)

The Bald Soprano

c)

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

d)

August: Osage County

8.

A Pulitzer Prize winning play written by American playwright Sam Shepard. The play focuses on former lovers who have met again in a motel in the desert.

a)

Hedda Gabler

b)

Fool for Love

c)

Angels in America

d)

The Bald Soprano

9.

A Pulitzer and Tony Award winning comedy-drama play by Tracy Letts about a dysfunctional family. The play takes place after the death and funeral of a father, that brings three sisters, along with their significant others and various kin, to the home of their mother.

a)

The Piano Lesson

b)

Master Harold and the Boys

c)

August: Osage County

d)

Topdog / Underdog

10.

A two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Tony Award for Best Play for both parts of the play, as well as both best revival when both parts were performed together. It is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s.

a)

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel

b)

Angels in America

c)

Fool for Love

d)

Hedda Gabler