Quiz  /  English and Irish Playwrights (Part One) Quiz

  • 1. 
    Whose play Look Back in Anger ushered in a new movement in British drama in the 1950s?

  • John Osborne’s
  • John Arden’s
  • W. Somerset Maugham’s
  • Eugene O’Neill’s

  • 2. 
    Who wrote The Way of the World, a play first performed in 1700?

  • William Congreve
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Ben Jonson

  • 3. 
    Who was baptized on April 26, 1564?

  • Christopher Marlowe
  • William Shakespeare
  • Ben Jonson
  • John Milton

  • 4. 
    Who wrote the play Lady Windermere’s Fan?

  • Oscar Wilde
  • James Barrie
  • William Golding
  • George Bernard Shaw

  • 5. 
    Who wrote the play Man and Superman?

  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Jerry Siegel
  • Henrik Ibsen

  • 6. 
    What were the mystery plays of Middle English drama based on?

  • Biblical narratives
  • English history
  • ancient ghost stories
  • no one knows

  • 7. 
    Which of these works did George Bernard Shaw write?

  • Saint Joan
  • My Fair Lady
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Man and Woman
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