This creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three in the evening.
What is Man (the riddle of the Sphinx)
100
"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
What is Jack Worthing ("The Importance of Being Earnest.")
100
This Greek mother killed herself after she discovered that she married and fathered children with her long-lost son.
What is Jocasta (from "Oedipus the King.")
100
Viola loves Orsino, Orsino loves Olivia, Olivia loves Cesario who is really Viola, but confuses Cesario for Sebastian, Viola's twin brother. This is madness!
What is Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"
100
The three major areas of classic drama.
What is Literary elements, Technical elements, and Perfomance elements.
200
This Greek hero and his crew of men rescued the golden fleece.
What is Jason and the Argonauts
200
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them!"
What is Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
200
This mother killed her two children because she hated her ex-husband more than she loved them.
What is Medea
200
Gwendolyn, Cecily, Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, Dr. Chasuble, Algernon, and Jack Worthing
What is Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."
200
A conversation between characters in a literary work.
What is Dialogue
300
Medea was exiled from this Greek city.
What is Corinth
300
"I'm going to the movies."
What is Tom ("The Glass Menagerie)
300
This mother thinks that smoking is a proper hobby and education tampers with natural ignorance.
What is Lady Bracknell ("The Importance of Being Earnest")
300
This play consists of characters that are more like concepts or moral values than people.
What is Anonymous' "Everyman".
400
Antigone was killed for burying this brother.
What is Polynices
400
"How terrible-to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come."
What is Tiresias (The blind prophet from "Oedipus the King.")
400
This mother is desperate to find her crippled daughter a proper suitor.
What is Amanda ("The Glass Menagerie")
400
This play shot Marlon Brando to fame; he plays Stanley Kowalski, Blanche Dubois' brother-in-law.
What is Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
400
A character who provides a strong contrast to another character.
What is Foil.
500
Name the three famous Greek playwrights we studied.
What is Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aristophanes
500
"Almight God, I am here at your will, Your commandment to fulfill."
What is Death (from the play Everyman.)
500
This Greek mother hanged herself after learning of the suicide of her own son, Haemon.
What is Eurydice ("Antigone")
500
Krogstad is the villain in this play.
What is Henrik Isben's "A Doll's House."
500
A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage.