Quizizz Questions
Year Act 2 takes place.
What is 1904?
The reason Sam Craig is introduced into Act 3
The audience is filled in on what has happened in the town as Sam is told about it.
Setting for Our Town.
What is Grover's Corner
“Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about’em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts…Yet every night all those families sat down to supper and the father came home from his work and the smoke went up the chimney, same as here.” Said by whom and meaning.
Who was the stage manager when discussing putting things in the time capsule in order for people to understand life as it was at this time?
The prize Thornton Wilder won many times.
What is the Pulitzer?
What Mr. Gibbs said he was worried about when he married Mrs. Gibbs?
What is they would run out of things to say to one another?
The author of Our Town.
Who is Thornton Wilder?
The town drunk
Who is Simon Stimpson?
"I think once you've found a person that you're very fond of...I mean a person who's fond of you, too, and likes you enough to be interested in your character...Well, I think that's just as important as college is, and even more so. That's what I think." Said by whom, when.
Who is George to Emily when they first knew they were in love?
The importance of "Blessed be the Tie that Binds."
What is it is a motif-- sung in each act. It represents the theme that love is what binds us together in our living and our dying.
The two people getting married in Act 2.
Who are George and Emily?
Mr. Webb's profession
What is newspaper editor?
the person who dies in Act 3 and how.
Who is Emily, from childbirth.
“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?” Said by whom and what does it mean.
What is Emily-- peole don't realize how wonderful life is until they've lost it?
Something the Stage Manager does that gives us a feel of how short life is.
What is gives us the information about someone's death while the character is still alive?
number of years that pass between Act 2 and 3
What is 9 years?
What is not doing his chores?
Ways Our Town was different from plays of its time.
What was it did not have an elaborate set (few props) and it also broke the 4th Wall. Also, it used the Stage Manager to give information to the audience
The meaning of the quote about people being "shut up in little boxes" or "in the dark."
What is we only are concerned with our little life right now, we don't really think about the big picture-- about eternity.
Appendix burst on a camping trip
Who is Wally Webb?
What is a cemetery?
Howie Newsome's occupation
What is a milkman?
Themes of each act.
What is Act 1-- Everyday Life; Act 2-- Love and Marriage; Act 3-- Death and Afterlife
"It is an attempt to find value above all price for the smallest events in our life," is what the author, Thornton Wilder said about the purpose of writing Our Town. Give examples from the play that support this claim.
What is we see small town people going to school, going to choir practice, visiting with one another. We also see the routines that don't change-- Howie Newcomb and the Crowell boys. Though things change, in many ways, they stay the same. We see the value of this in Act 3 when Emily goes back to her birthday.
Wanted to take at trip to Europe but never go to do it.
Who is Mrs. Gibb?