Classics From The Theatre

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1. Which of these Greek classic plays has a sex-strike as its subject? Sophocles' "Electra" Euripides' "The Trojan Women" Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" Euripides' "Medea"

2. In which Shakespeare classic is there a slave called "Caliban" and a spirit with the name "Ariel"? Midsummer Night's Dream Measure for Measure A Winter's Tale The Tempest

3. In which of these "modern classics" do there occur two tramps calling each other "Didi" and "Gogo"? Joe Orton's "What The Butler Saw" Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party" Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

4. Which of these historical characters did both French author Jean Anouilh and his anglophone colleague T.S. Eliot each write a different play about ? Thomas More Thomas à Becket King Canute of Denmark and England Joan of Arc

5. Which of these American classics is situated in New Orleans? "A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof "- Tennessee Williams "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf" - Albee "A Long Day's Journey Into Night"- O'Neill "A Streetcar Named Desire" - Tennessee Williams

6. Which of these plays has an impostor as its central hero? "The Jew of Malta" by Christopher Marlowe "Major Barbara" by G.B. Shaw "The Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

7. In which of these plays does there occur a character modelled after Marilyn Monroe? Arthur Miller's "After The Fall" Tennessee Williams' "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Ionesco's " The Bald Prima Donna"

8. Which of these plays features a stage-hero with a "nose-problem"? Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" Molière "Le Misanthrope" Noël Coward's " Hay Fever" J.M. Barrie " The Admirable Crichton"

9. In which of these plays does the author not shrink from setting his play in a bawdy house? "The Balcony "- Jean Genet(1957) "Huis Clos" - Sartre(1944) "A Doll's House" - Henrik Ibsen "The Maids" - Jean Genet (1947)

10. Which of these authors wrote a play about, or which at least ends with, "the chopping down of cherry trees"? Noël Coward Anton Chekhov Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw