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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1936), O'Neill is best known for his realistic dramas, including 'Long Day's Journey Into Night', which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957.
3 Eugene O'Neill quizzes and 30 Eugene O'Neill trivia questions.
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  Long Day's Journey Into Night    
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Eugene O'Neill wrote one of the greatest American plays. Take this quiz on test your knowledge of his most famous work, "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Average, 10 Qns, captainthought, Mar 25 06
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  Eugene O'Neill    
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Here's a little bit about the man who was America's greatest playwright.
Average, 10 Qns, robert362, Oct 06 20
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  Mourning Becomes Electra    
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This play by Eugene O'Neill is really morbid yet really good!
Average, 10 Qns, Ilovedr, Jan 29 06
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trivia question Quick Question
Where do Christine and Brant plan to sail away to?

From Quiz "Mourning Becomes Electra"




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Eugene O'Neill Trivia Questions
1. What war has just finished as the play begins?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: The American Civil War

Ezra Mannon and Orin Mannon return war heroes after years of fighting in the Civil War.

2. O'Neill's father earned a considerable reputation for himself. In what field?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Acting

James O'Neill made a fine living portraying the Count of Monte Cristo. He felt, however, that he had compromised himself artistically by 'selling out' for commercial success.

3. What word does Tyrone call his younger son, Edmund, again and again in the play?

From Quiz Long Day's Journey Into Night

Answer: morbid

Edmund's poetry is considered morbid by his father; as well as his list of "athiests, fools, and madmen" that Edmund admires; Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Swinburne, etc.

4. Who is the first man who courts Lavinia?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: Peter

Peter is the only man who ever really loved Lavinia. Adam Brant only pretended to court Lavinia in an effort to hide his relationship with Christine.

5. What is Edmund actually dying of?

From Quiz Long Day's Journey Into Night

Answer: Consumption

But if it wasn't consumption, just being an alcoholic, having a stingy drunk for a dad, a "dope fiend" for a mom, a whore-mongering brother by his side, and a library of bad poetry is bound to get him in the end.

6. Dr. Blake thought that Ezra Mannon really died due to ________.

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: love

Although Dr. Blake knew that Ezra had a heart condition, he felt that he really died from love.

7. Who is the man whom Seth bet to stay in the Mannon's house overnight?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: Small

These men are Seth's friends, and all of them were afraid to enter the house since it was thought to be haunted.

8. O'Neill spent some time in a sanitarium recuperating from a serious illness. What was it?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Tuberculosis

The plot of 'Long Day's Journey' dramatizes this illness (among other problems).

9. Suppose you could step into this play, and you wanted to anger Tyrone, what could you do?

From Quiz Long Day's Journey Into Night

Answer: Turn on every light in the house

Tyrone's fear of ending up in the poorhouse, keeps him from using an extra electricity than necessary. The same fear that has him skimp on health care for his family, or for buying a proper home for his wife.

10. Where do Christine and Brant plan to sail away to?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: China

After Christine knows that both Orin and Lavinia know about her lover, she decides that she must get away with Brant.

11. One of O'Neill's best known work is 'The Iceman Cometh'. What does the 'iceman' represent?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Death

The role of Hickey is a choice one for actors.

12. In what room of the Mannon house did Christine shoot herself?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: study

Christine was looking for a way to end her life and found the gun lying on the floor in the study.

13. O'Neill was very proud of his work experiences prior to becoming a writer. What work did he do?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Seaman

He was an able bodied seaman. Many of his plays are set at sea.

14. To whom did O'Neill dedicate this work?

From Quiz Long Day's Journey Into Night

Answer: Carlotta, his wife

He gave her "this work of old sorrow, written in tears and blood" on July 22, 1941.

15. Who does Orin give the envelope with his script to in order to keep it safe?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: Hazel

Orin writes a script of all his family's crimes and gives it to Hazel so Lavinia cannot read it.

16. Which play was written by O'Neill as a remembrance of his brother?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: A Moon for the Misbegotten

Poor Jamie didn't do too well in life: O'Neill's older brother drank himself to death, more or less.

17. What happens in the final scene of the play?

From Quiz Long Day's Journey Into Night

Answer: Mary comes dowstairs with her wedding dress and thinks she's going to become a nun

She's irrevocably obliviated by the end of the play and not a scrap of hope remains for anyone in the family.

18. What color dress does Lavinia wear that her mother also wore?

From Quiz Mourning Becomes Electra

Answer: green

When Lavinia wears this dress, people mistake her for her deceased mother.

19. Uncharacteristically, O'Neill wrote this light-hearted piece.

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: Ah, Wilderness

It's a look at the happy-go-lucky youth that he might have wanted - but did not have.

20. 'Strange Interlude' is one of O'Neill's best known works. What distinctive feature does it contain?

From Quiz Eugene O'Neill

Answer: The actors speak their thoughts

The actors express their thoughts in dramatic 'asides'. Masks were used in 'The Great God {Brown';} drums were used for effect in 'The Emperor Jones'. Dialect was used in 'All God's Chillun Got Wings'.

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