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1. This quotation is from one of the Tom Stoppard plays listed below: "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." Name the source material.
2. "The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contemptuous of history." What Tom Stoppard play is that line derived from?
3. "When I was at school, on certain afternoons we all had to do what was called Labour - weeding, sweeping, sawing logs for the boiler-room, that kind of thing; but if you had a chit from Matron you were let off to spend the afternoon messing about in the Art Room. Labour or Art. And you've got a chit for life? ... For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist." Identify the Stoppard play that quotation comes from.
4. Which Tom Stoppard play is the source of the following line? "I was taken once to Covent Garden to hear a woman called Callas in a sort of foreign musical with no dancing which people were donating kidneys to get tickets for. The idea was that I would be cured of my strange disability.... My illness at the time took the form of believing that the Righteous Brothers' recording of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" on the London label was possibly the most haunting, the most deeply moving noise ever produced by the human spirit."
5. "What is your instrument? Give me a clue. If I beat you to a pulp would you try to protect your face or your hands? Which would be the more serious -- if you couldn't sit down for a week or couldn't stand up? I'm trying to narrow it down, you see. You can speak frankly. You will find I am without prejudice. I have invited musicians into my own house. I've had clarinet players eating at my own table. I've had French whores and gigolos speak to me in the public streets, I mean horns, I mean piccolos, so don't worry about me, maestro." This quotation comes from one of the Stoppard plays listed below. Which?
6. "To you consciousness is subversive-because your thing is the collective mind. But politics is over. You're looking for revolution in the wrong place." - Tom Stoppard
Which play is that line from?
7. "Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final." This line was written by Tom Stoppard. What play is it from?
8. "Still, at least in the Judaeo-Christian tradition, nothing is heard either of a God who created the universe and then merely washed his hands of it, or, alternatively, a God who merely took a comparatively recent interest in the chance product of universal gases." Identify the Tom Stoppard play that quote comes from.
9. "All the mystery in life turns out to be this same mystery, the join between things which are distinct and yet continuous, body and mind, free will and causality, living cells and life itself; the moment before the foetus. Who needed God when everything worked like billiard balls?" Tom Stoppard wrote that line for which play?
10. "You can't eat a painted apple, so art is merely life's poor relation; paintings of the sea are only useful for people ... who don't know what the sea looks like." What play by Tom Stoppard is the source of that line?
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