Characters
Themes
Relationship to History
Misc
100
In the first scene this character lost his Wife and Sons to a fire, setting the stage for the events to come in the story.
What is Rosen?
100
1st scene of the play trying to convey
What is Foreshadowing
100
The year in which this play was written.
What is 1938?
100
This is the head of the education of American Drama, otherwise our Professor.
What is Jeff LaRoque?
200
The narrator of the story, taking “Little Man” to different points in time.
What is Loudspeaker
200
This play is used to highlight this particular issue in New York.
What is problem of slum housing.
200
One of the worst economic disasters in US history, which has a large bearing on the events of this play.
What is The Great Depression
200
From the ever popular series what is the character's Ricks favorite catch phrase?
What is wubba lubba dub dub?
300
Character seen in most acts, used as a stand-in for the audience.
What is Little Man, Angus Buttonkooper
300
This artistic style is used throughout the play to introduce factual elements of history.
What is Newspaper quotes.
300
A disease that affected old tenements of New York in the mid-1800s.
What is Cholera?
300
Who is the better looking Alex?
What is Alex Craig of course! (+1 point) You suck ups :P
400
Mayor of New York City who attempted to help supplement the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill with additional funding for the removal of slums.
What is Fiorello La Guardia.
400
The act of ending the play on the scene where it began.
What is Bookending.
400
With rent prices rising, and living conditions remaining stagnant, tenants used this method to persuade landlords to better their standard of living.
What is Strike.
400
This is the room we are in.
What is H212?
500
This Character uses the passage of time to raise amounts of rent.
What is Schultz?
500
The scene where the tentants are all squished together is trying to convey.
What is tight living conditions
500
A bill passed in 1937 that allows the government funding to build better housing and clear up slums.
What is Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill.
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