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American Drama

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
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1.

Boats, with theatre groups and bands, who stopped at certain ports are called...

(a)  

2.

Match the definitions to the descriptions in the correct order:

A - >500 seats; commercial; usually musicals shown for years

B - >100 seats; actors, playwrights new in occupation

C - <100 seats; experimental; 1950s; might be shown in a cafe

a)

A - Broadway, B - Off-Broadway, C - Off-off Broadway

b)

A - Off-off Broadway, B - Off-Broadway, C - Broadway

c)

A - Off-Broadway, B - Broadway, C - Off-off Broadway

3.

Which one of Eugene O'Neill's plays is about:

a black man who establishes his own empire on an island and most of the play is an escape?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'The Hairy Ape'

c)

'Desire under the Elms'

d)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

4.

Which one of Eugene O'Neill's plays is about:

a lower-class sailor becomes aware of how he is perceived and degenerated into what he is perceived to be & he gets killed by an orangutan who he tries to become friends with, in the zoo.?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'The Hairy Ape'

c)

'Desire under the Elms'

d)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

5.

Which one of Eugene O'Neill's plays is about:

an elderly farmer decides who will inherit his farm - he is 75 y.o. and has a new wife who is young and wants to have an heir in order to get his fortune. She has a baby with the farmer's son whom she loves?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'The Hairy Ape'

c)

'Desire under the Elms'

d)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

6.

Which one of Eugene O'Neill's plays is about:

a father who comes back after the war and his wife has a lover who kills her husband. Children know that and the sister convinces her brother to kill the mother's lover. Then her brother killed the lover, her mother killed herself and her brother kills himself?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'The Hairy Ape'

c)

'Desire under the Elms'

d)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

7.

Which one of Eugene O'Neill's plays is about:

O'Neill's own family; where the mother was addicted to morphine and members of the family are cruel to each other, but they love each other?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'The Hairy Ape'

c)

'Desire under the Elms'

d)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

8.

Choose features of Eugene O'Neill's plays?

a)

exploring serious themes

b)

experimenting with theatrical conventions and stage techniques

c)

they introduced into American drama the techniques of realism

d)

combined the intensity of Greek tragedy with a modern American idiom and setting

e)

they were mostly comedies

9.

Which works are Eugene O'Neill's?

a)

'The Emperor Jones'

b)

'All my sons'

c)

'The Hairy Ape'

d)

'Death of a Salesman'

e)

'Desire under the Elms'

10.

Which works are Eugene O'Neill's?

a)

'Mourning Becomes Electra'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

d)

'The Misfits'

11.

Which works are Arthur Miller's?

a)

'All my sons'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Death of a Salesman'

d)

'The Misfits'

e)

'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

12.

Which of Arthur Miller's work is about:

a man works in a plane engines factory and they produce faulty elements for American soldiers?

a)

'All my sons'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Death of a Salesman'

d)

'The Misfits'

13.

Which of Arthur Miller's work is about:

Willy Loman, who is a low-worker and he kills himself, so the family can get his life insurance and pay the mortgage?

a)

'All my sons'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Death of a Salesman'

d)

'The Misfits'

14.

Which of Arthur Miller's work is a response to Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee's crusade against supposed communist sympathizers?

a)

'All my sons'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Death of a Salesman'

d)

'The Misfits'

15.

Which of Arthur Miller's work is a film directed by John Huston?

a)

'All my sons'

b)

'The Crucible'

c)

'Death of a Salesman'

d)

'The Misfits'

16.

Which are the features of Arthur Miller's plays?

a)

continued the realistic tradition adding some expressionistic elements

b)

psychological context

c)

presented ordinary characters under extraordinary pressure

d)

combined social awareness with deep insights into the personal weaknesses of his characters - social context

e)

extraordinary characters

17.

Match the description to the title:

a black man is killed in train by a white woman.

a)

'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by EDWARD ALBEE

b)

'Glengarry Glen Ross' by DAVID MAMET

c)

'Angels In America' by TONY KUSHNER

d)

'August: Osage County' by TRACY LETTS

e)

'Dutchman' by Everett LeRoi Jones

18.

Match the description to the title:

1980s AIDS epidemic; criticism of R. Reagan presidency; social criticism; set in New York city in the mid-1980s one man dies on AIDS, one woman wants to convert her son to heterosexuality; Rosenburg a wife of the man who sent a recipe for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union = they were both executed.

a)

'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by EDWARD ALBEE

b)

'Glengarry Glen Ross' by DAVID MAMET

c)

'Angels In America' by TONY KUSHNER

d)

'August: Osage County' by TRACY LETTS

e)

'Dutchman' by Everett LeRoi Jones

19.

Match the description to the title:

a family drama in which the main character is fatally ill; family secrets are being revealed; social contemporary problems = psychological.

a)

'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by EDWARD ALBEE

b)

'Glengarry Glen Ross' by DAVID MAMET

c)

'Angels In America' by TONY KUSHNER

d)

'August: Osage County' by TRACY LETTS

e)

'Dutchman' by Everett LeRoi Jones

20.

Match the description to the title:

shows 3 generations of a family of estate agents and the theme is moral choices and work ethic.

a)

'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by EDWARD ALBEE

b)

'Glengarry Glen Ross' by DAVID MAMET

c)

'Angels In America' by TONY KUSHNER

d)

'August: Osage County' by TRACY LETTS

e)

'Dutchman' by Everett LeRoi Jones

21.

Match the description to the title:

a portrait of a tortured marriage; during the 1 long night - 2 married couples - the older and younger newcomers; older: a professor who is the husband of Martha and that is how he gets the job; he is humiliated by his wife; the more alcohol they drink, the more aggressive Martha behaves; climax - they have made up their son.

a)

'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' by EDWARD ALBEE

b)

'Glengarry Glen Ross' by DAVID MAMET

c)

'Angels In America' by TONY KUSHNER

d)

'August: Osage County' by TRACY LETTS

e)

'Dutchman' by Everett LeRoi Jones

22.

Which works are the examples of the Theatre of the Absurd?

a)

'The Zoo Story'

b)

'Simpatico'

c)

'The Sandbox'

d)

'The Piano Lesson'

23.

What is true about 'The Pittsburgh Cycle'?

a)

written by AUGUST WILSON

b)

written by AMIRI BARAKA

c)

10 plays showing life in Pittsburgh in 10 different decades

d)

containing 'Fences' - the time of the play is the 1950s

e)

containing 'The Piano Lesson' the time of the play is the 1930s

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