Oedipus
Where does the play take place?
a) Corinth
b) Delphi
c) Thebes
d) Athens
c) Thebes
Who wrote Much Ado About Nothing?
a) Christopher Marlowe
b) William Shakespeare
c) Ben Jonson
d) Thomas Kyd
b) William Shakespeare
Who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) George Bernard Shaw
c) Noel Coward
d) T.S. Eliot
a) Oscar Wilde
Who wrote A Raisin in the Sun?
a) Lorraine Hansberry
b) August Wilson
c) Alice Childress
d) Langston Hughes
a) Lorraine Hansberry
What happens to the insurance money?
a) It’s all invested successfully
b) Walter loses part of it in a scam
c) Mama hides it
d) Beneatha takes it
b) Walter loses part of it in a scam
What is happening in Thebes at the beginning of the play?
a) A war
b) A plague
c) A famine
d) A flood
b) A plague
The play is set in:
a) Messina
b) Venice
c) Verona
d) Florence
a) Messina
What does “Earnest” refer to in the play?
a) A man’s name and the quality of honesty
b) A city in England
c) A code word for marriage
d) A social title
a) A man’s name and the quality of honesty
Walter Lee Younger dreams of:
a) Becoming a doctor
b) Opening a liquor store
c) Moving to Africa
d) Buying a car dealership
b) Opening a liquor store
How does The Importance of Being Earnest end?
a) Jack discovers he is Ernest
b) Lady Bracknell forbids all marriages
c) Gwendolen runs away
d) Jack becomes a priest
a) Jack discovers he is Ernest
Who was Oedipus’s wife and mother?
a) Jocasta
b) Antigone
c) Ismene
d) Eurydice
a) Jocasta
Who are the two main pairs of lovers?
a) Hero & Claudio; Beatrice & Benedick
b) Hero & Don John; Beatrice & Claudio
c) Hero & Leonato; Beatrice & Don Pedro
d) Margaret & Don John; Hero & Benedick
a) Hero & Claudio; Beatrice & Benedick
What false identity does Jack assume?
a) Algernon
b) Ernest
c) Worthing
d) Bunbury
b) Ernest
The Younger family lives in:
a) New York City
b) Chicago
c) Detroit
d) Baltimore
b) Chicago
Much Ado About Nothing ends with:
a) The villain escaping
b) Both couples marrying
c) Hero entering a convent
d) Benedick dying
b) Both couples marrying
What is Oedipus determined to discover?
a) The killer of Laius
b) His true father
c) The origin of the plague
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
Who is the villain of the play?
a) Don Pedro
b) Don John
c) Leonato
d) Borachio
b) Don John
Where was Jack found as a baby?
a) A handbag at a train station
b) A doorstep
c) A church pew
d) A carriage
a) A handbag at a train station
Beneatha wants to become a:
a) Teacher
b) Nurse
c) Doctor
d) Actress
c) Doctor
What does Oedipus do at the end of the play?
a) Remains King
b) Blinds himself
c) Kills Creon
d) Dies
b) Blinds himself
The oracle at Delphi said that Oedipus would:
a) Rule Thebes
b) Kill his father and marry his mother
c) Defeat the Sphinx
d) Save Greece from war
b) Kill his father and marry his mother
How does Claudio shame Hero?
a) He accuses her of infidelity at their wedding.
b) He abandons her for Beatrice.
c) He runs away before the ceremony.
d) He reveals she is adopted
a) He accuses her of infidelity at their wedding.
Who is Lady Bracknell?
a) Gwendolen’s mother
b) Cecily’s aunt
c) Jack’s fiancée
d) A maid
a) Gwendolen’s mother
Karl Lindner visits the Youngers to:
a) Offer a loan
b) Welcome them
c) Bribe them not to move into a white neighborhood
d) Threaten them
c) Bribe them not to move into a white neighborhood
Tiresias is:
a) A soldier
b) A blind prophet
c) Oedipus’s servant
d) A messenger
b) A blind prophet