American drama in the 20th century (and Postwar drama)

Question 1

Grotesque comedy about middle-class Mommy and Daddy who torture their adopted son to death (seems unlikely to be hip).

Accepted Answer

The American Dream

Question 2

After the WWII, there were 2 non-commercial theatrical companies, which?

Accepted Answer

1) Provincetown Players; 2) Washington Square Players (Group Theatre)

Question 3

About aristocratic family who became rich during the CW (allegory to biblical little foxes in the vineyard).

Accepted Answer

Little Foxes

Question 4

Author interested in the problem of ethical values/morals;plays realistic tragedies;married Marilyn Monroe;Pulitzer Pr.

Accepted Answer

Arthur Miller

Question 5

Extremely cruel conversation between husband and wife (verbal abuse while drinking) where they both collapse at the end.

Accepted Answer

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Question 6

It describes bitter, abnormal family tension in the struggle for control of a plantation.

Accepted Answer

Cat on Hot Tin Roof

Question 7

Jewish origin;lawyer,playwright; influenced by Karel Čapek; settings:courts;wrote On Trial, Adding Machine, Street Scene

Accepted Answer

Elmer Rice

Question 8

Whose characters were neurotic, sexually obsessed, and especially women?

Accepted Answer

Tenessee William

Question 9

The affirmation of a pagan idealism in an ironic tragedy of modern materialism (all men wore masks).

Accepted Answer

The Great God Brown

Question 10

About retired travelling salesman (Willy Lowman) who decided that he would be more valuable to his family dead.

Accepted Answer

Death of a Salesman

Question 11

Mommy&Daddy who tired of Grandma decide to leave her on a beach where she is picked up by a young man representing death

Accepted Answer

The Sandbox

Question 12

Did Eugene O’Neill ever won the Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 13

Who wrote Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall, Focus, Playing for Time, All My Sons, Crucible?

Accepted Answer

Arthur Miller

Question 14

Who was the first prominent and the greatest playwright in modern American drama?

Accepted Answer

Eugene O’Neill

Question 15

Which plays belong to the 3) Critical plays?

Accepted Answer

Cat on Hot Tin Roof; Something cloudy, something clear

Question 16

Novel which follows the lives of eight people who die at the same bridge.

Accepted Answer

Bridge of San Louis Ray

Question 17

Who wrote The Zoo Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Goat or Who is Sylvia, The American Dream?

Accepted Answer

Edward Albee

Question 18

Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, Till the Day I Die, Paradise Lost are works of Clifford Odets

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 19

Whose motives were sexual&psychological relationship;physical/mental violence;conflict of sensible&aggressive character?

Accepted Answer

Tenessee William

Question 20

Polsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) to clarify and implement agreemnts reached at the Yalta Conference.

Accepted Answer

July + August 1945

Question 21

Wrote drama in verse; author of Winterset and What Price Glory?

Accepted Answer

Maxwell Anderson

Question 22

The Tyrone family's past haunts them as addiction, illness, and regret fuel a painful cycle of love and dysfunction.

Accepted Answer

Long Days Journey Into the Night

Question 23

Longstanding disagreements between USSR x USA; USA wanted to share liberty, equality,democracy x USSR afraid of invasion

Accepted Answer

Cold War

Question 24

Who wrote The Thin Man about prohibion-era in New York City?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Dashiel Hammett

Question 25

Joe Keller's crime leads to his son's fury, his missing son's suicide, and his own tragic downfall.

Accepted Answer

All My Sons

Question 26

Which plays belong to the 2) Symbolical plays?

Accepted Answer

Camino Real

Question 27

Play about American soldiers in the WW1; not presented as heroes but as young men who care only for alcohol and women.

Accepted Answer

What Price Glory?

Question 28

Literary movement in the 60s and 70s that had origin in Dadaism and mingles reality with fantasy?

Accepted Answer

Theatre of Absurd

Question 29

Actor, playwright; influenced by Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo, Charles Chaplin; wrote Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!

Accepted Answer

Clifford Odets

Question 30

Two men on the bench in Central Park, one wants to tell his story to other but he didn’t listen, so he gets stabbed.

Accepted Answer

The Zoo Story

Question 31

Successful architect who falls in love with a goat, his wife finds out, he bring the goat home, his wife kills the goat

Accepted Answer

The Goat or Who is Sylvia

Question 32

About AIDS epidemic in New York during Reagan presidency.

Accepted Answer

Angels in America

Question 33

Who belong to the Group Theatre?

Accepted Answer

Elmer Rice,Clifford Odets,Thornton Wilder,Maxwell Anderson,Wallace Stevens

Question 34

Set at the court; first use of Revolving Stage and Flashbacks.

Accepted Answer

On Trial

Question 35

Author of Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, Matchmaker and Bridge of San Louis Ray.

Accepted Answer

Thornton Wilder

Question 36

South American Jew; wrote The Children’s Hour, Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Watch on Rhine?

Accepted Answer

Lillian Hellman

Question 37

Story about happy couple(E&B) who adopted niece. Beatrice falls in love with one of her cousin,Rodolpho. Eddie is killed

Accepted Answer

A View from the Bridge

Question 38

Protagonist looks like a Jew; he has to face racism, he is fired, at the end he admits he wants to be Jew (but he isn’t)

Accepted Answer

Focus

Question 39

The downfall of Troy is compared to the end of the Civil war; The female character was like Oedipus (incest w father)

Accepted Answer

Mourning becomes Electra

Question 40

Before the 20th century the drama was forbidden, it was unacceptable entertainment for Puritans.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

How long the Cold War lasted?

Accepted Answer

1945 - early 1990s

Question 42

Whose themes were the darkest sides of life, isolation, inability to communicate, subjective thoughts of characters?

Accepted Answer

Tenessee William

Question 43

Influenced by ancient Greek tragedies; wrote Mourning becomes Electra, Long Day’s Journey Into the Night, The Hairy Ape

Accepted Answer

Eugene O’Neill

Question 44

Which plays belong to the 1) Most realistic plays?

Accepted Answer

The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar named desire

Question 45

About American communist party ; taxis strike in 1944.

Accepted Answer

Waiting for Lefty

Question 46

Mr. Zero snaps after being replaced by a machine, faces trial, death, and an afterlife of endless routine and futility.

Accepted Answer

Adding Machine

Question 47

A segregated hospital denies care for the jazz singer, exposing racism and injustice in 1937 Memphis.

Accepted Answer

Death of Bessie Smith

Question 48

Handicapped young Laura (abnormally shy) is trying to find a man; she collets little glass animals and is like them.

Accepted Answer

The Glass Menagerie

Question 49

"Absurdist"; learned from Beckett; the most outstanding representative of the Theatre of Absurd in 60's, 70's.

Accepted Answer

Edward Albee

Question 50

Who wrote Indians and Oh ded, poor dad, mama’s hung you in the closet and I’m fellin’ so sad?

Accepted Answer

Arthur Kopit

Question 51

Which of these is an anti-fasist plays about Fascism in America?

Accepted Answer

The Watch on Rhine

Question 52

Mainly poet, but also wrote drama in verse such as Murder in Cathedral and Murder of Thomas Beckett.

Accepted Answer

Wallace Stevens

Question 53

Does Tenessee Williams have a Pulitzer Prize?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 54

Characters are fragile women who are totally irrational, unable to cope with outside world in contrast with capable men.

Accepted Answer

A Streetcar named desire

Question 55

About the effects of the economical depression has on the middle class; they lose their money/positions and had to work

Accepted Answer

Paradise Lost

Question 56

One of the first antifascist plays; Communist resists Nazi torture, facing betrayal, despair, and defiant hope.

Accepted Answer

Till the Day I Die

Question 57

Yalta Conference where Roosevelt and Churchill tried to restrict post-war influence in Europe

Accepted Answer

February 1945

Question 58

Criticism of American materialism, protagonist calls for socialist revolution that would end American Dream.

Accepted Answer

Awake and Sing!

Question 59

Beginning of an American theatre can be described as...

Accepted Answer

commercial, no origo playwrights, used British drama, radio/TV more popular

Question 60

We can divide plays of Tenessee Williams into 3 groups: 1) Most realistic plays; 2) Symbolical plays; 3) Critical plays

Accepted Answer

True

Question 61

At the time of American Revolution only 3 novels turned into plays, which?

Accepted Answer

The Last of Mohykans, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Rip Van Winkle

Question 62

This play became famous for musical and film Hello, Dolly!

Accepted Answer

Matchmaker

Question 63

How many Pulitzer Prizes did Eugene O’Neill earn?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 64

Used multiple action technique for the first time, he’s telling stories of many characters of different points of view.

Accepted Answer

Street Scene

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