WorksheetsSamuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Samuel Beckett was a(n) __________ novelist and playwright.
English
Irish
Welsh
Scottish
Samuel Beckett was born in 1906 in __________.
Edinburgh
London
Dublin
Manchester
Beckett went to ________ for the first time in 1928.
Paris
Lyon
Spain
Switzerland
In Paris, what did Beckett do?
worked in publishing
wrote for a literary magazine
edit a newspaper
teach English
During WWII, Beckett stayed in France and _________.
Worked as a courier for the French Resistance
wrote war propaganda
hid from the war
played cricket
What award did Beckett win in 1969?
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Award
The Nobel Prize
The Pen Faulker Prize
After Beckett died in 1989, where was he buried?
Montparnasse Cemetery
Pere LaChaise Cemetery
Westminster Abbey Cemetery
Downton Abbey Cemetery
Who are the two main characters of Waiting for Godot?
Rosencrantz
Vladimir
Guildenstern
Estragon
What is the setting for Waiting for Godot?
A disembodied mouth talking in third person
A stage with two garbage cans
An empty room with a single door
A country road near a leafless tree
What is a significant theme in Waiting for Godot?
individual feelings and emotions
embrace the natural world
God is dead
Life is meaningless
