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Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Samuel Beckett was a(n) __________ novelist and playwright.

a)

English

b)

Irish

c)

Welsh

d)

Scottish

2.

Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 in __________.

a)

Edinburgh

b)

London

c)

Dublin

d)

Manchester

3.

Beckett went to ________ for the first time in 1928.

a)

Paris

b)

Lyon

c)

Spain

d)

Switzerland

4.

In Paris, what did Beckett do?

a)

worked in publishing

b)

wrote for a literary magazine

c)

edit a newspaper

d)

teach English

5.

During WWII, Beckett stayed in France and _________.

a)

Worked as a courier for the French Resistance

b)

wrote war propaganda

c)

hid from the war

d)

played cricket

6.

What award did Beckett win in 1969?

a)

The Pulitzer Prize

b)

The National Book Award

c)

The Nobel Prize

d)

The Pen Faulker Prize

7.

After Beckett died in 1989, where was he buried?

a)

Montparnasse Cemetery

b)

Pere LaChaise Cemetery

c)

Westminster Abbey Cemetery

d)

Downton Abbey Cemetery

8.

Who are the two main characters of Waiting for Godot?

a)

Rosencrantz

b)

Vladimir

c)

Guildenstern

d)

Estragon

9.

What is the setting for Waiting for Godot?

a)

A disembodied mouth talking in third person

b)

A stage with two garbage cans

c)

An empty room with a single door

d)

A country road near a leafless tree

10.

What is a significant theme in Waiting for Godot?

a)

individual feelings and emotions

b)

embrace the natural world

c)

God is dead

d)

Life is meaningless