Quiz  /  The Play’s the Thing Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which movie is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?

  • West Side Story
  • My Fair Lady
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • The Sound of Music

  • 2. 
    Which playwright was the chief exponent of Old Comedy in ancient Greece?

  • Aristophanes
  • Sophocles
  • Aeschylus
  • Diogenes

  • 3. 
    Which playwright is best known for his play Oedipus the King?

  • Sophocles
  • Plato
  • Euripides
  • Aristophanes

  • 4. 
    Who wrote the play Man and Superman?

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

  • 5. 
    Which play by Eugene O’Neill is a trilogy based on Aeschylus’s Oresteia?

  • The Iceman Cometh
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
  • Strange Interlude
  • Mourning Becomes Electra

  • 6. 
    What term refers to a passage in a play in which a character expresses their thoughts or feelings aloud while alone on the stage (or with other actors keeping silent)?

  • onomatopoeia
  • soliloquy
  • stream of consciousness
  • oration

  • 7. 
    In which play by Shakespeare would you find the comic character Falstaff?

  • Henry IV, parts 1 and 2
  • Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3
  • Richard III
  • Hamlet

  • 8. 
    Whose play Look Back in Anger ushered in a new movement in British drama?

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

  • 9. 
    What is the name of the penniless Venetian who asks his friend for a loan in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice?

  • Shylock
  • Bassanio
  • Antonio
  • Malvolio

  • 10. 
    What was the first play Shakespeare wrote on Roman themes?

  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • Coriolanus
  • Julius Caesar

  • 11. 
    Which of these plays was not written by Christopher Marlowe?

  • The Tragicall History of D. Faustus
  • The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta
  • Coriolanus
  • Tamburlaine the Great

  • 12. 
    Which of these plays did George Bernard Shaw write?

  • Man and Woman
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Our Town
  • Saint Joan

  • 13. 
    Which theatre company in England had William Shakespeare as its leading dramatist?

  • Prince Henry’s Men
  • Lord Chamberlain’s Men
  • Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Children of the Chapel

  • 14. 
    Which English actor born in 1789 was known for his portrayal of villains in Shakespearean plays?

  • Mark Rylance
  • Edmund Kean
  • Edwin Booth
  • Laurence Olivier

  • 15. 
    Which was the first Greek tragedy to be presented on the English stage, in 1566?

  • Medea
  • Antigone
  • Jocasta
  • Oedipus Rex
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