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caged in, when you are only a kid yourself and want to go out and see
things. At last I got the chance – to get into that house . And you bet your
life I took It!(Defiantly)And I ain’t sorry neither . (After a pause with bitter
hatred)It was all men’s fault – the whole business. It was men on the farm
ordering and beating me and giving me the wrong start. Then when I was a
nurse , it was men again hanging around , bothering me , trying to see what
they could get. (She gives a hard laugh.) And now it’s men all the time
.Gawd, I hate ‘emall , every mother’s son of ‘em! Don’t you?”
The play focuses on the problematic relationship between a sailor and his
daughter he has not seen for almost twenty years . Their relationship
becomes complicated by her romantic involvement with another man of the
sea and her unveiling of her troubled past. In this compelling account of a
young woman’s decline and subsequent salvation , O’Neill
presents a
realistic and painful exploration of family conflict and the harsh reality of
women’s lives in the early part of the twentieth century.
Points to ponder : How the relationships between fathers and daughters
can affect to the woman’s attitude towards men in adulthood?
What is your attitude towards Anna are you feeling sorry for
her being a victim of life circumstances or you think she had another
alternatives but being a prostitute?
Test
1.
In which play C. Odets focuses on alternates between the drivers
union?
a.
Awake and Sing!
b.
Golden Boy
c.
Rocket to the Moon
d.
Waiting for Lefty
2.
Which of the Odets’ plays has been cited as “ the earliest
quintessential Jewish play outside the Yiddish Theatre “?
a.
Awake and Sing!
b.
Golden Boy
c.
Rocket to the Moon
d.
Waiting for Lefty
3.
Which of the Odets’ plays focused on interpersonal relationships as
affected by the moral dilemmas of individual characters ?
a.
Awake and Sing!
b.
Golden Boy
c.
Rocket to the Moon
d.
Waiting for Lefty
4.
Which play of A. Miller regarded as a “ a very depressing play in a
time of great optimism”?
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a.
All My Sons
b.
Death of
a Salesman
c.
The Man Who Had All the Luck
d.
Golden Boy
5.
Which of the plays shows A. Miller’s deep personal view of
marriage?
a.
All My Sons
b.
After the Fall
c.
Golden Boy
d.
Waiting for Lefty
6.
Find the main hero of A. Miller’s play “After the Fall”?
a.
Maggie
b.
Marilyn
c.
Margaret
d.
Maria
7.
Which A. Miller’s plays considered autobiographical by critics?
a.
The Man Who Had All the Luck
b.
Death of a Salesman
c.
After the Fall
d.
Finishing Picture
8.
To whom dedicated A. Miller’s play “After the Fall”?
a.
Marilyn Monroe
b.
Julia Roberts
c.
Marina Vladi
d.
Elia
Kazan
9.
Whose works were banned in Soviet Union , after writer campaigned
for the freedom of dissident writers?
a.
Clifford Odets
b.
Thornton Wilder
c.
Arthur Miller
d.
Tennessee
Williams
10.
Which of the given plays was A. Miller’s last play?
a.
After the Fall
b.
Finishing Picture
c.
Death of a Salesman
d.
Golden Boy
11.
Find the autobiographical work by A. Miller?
a.
Timebends
b.
Finishing Picture
c.
Broken Glass
d.
The Last Yankee
12.
Find American Nobel laureate in Literature .
a.
Eugene O’Neil
b.
Arthur Miller
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c.
Thornton Wilder
d.
Tennessee Williams
13.
Find the comedy play by O’Neil
a.
Ah, Wilderness
b.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
c.
Beyond the Horizon
d.
The Emperor Jones
14.
Find the play by O’ Neil which focuses on the family portrait.
a.
The Emperor Jones
b.
Ah, Wilderness
c.
Beyond the Horizon
d.
Golden Boy
15.
Which play by O’Neil comments the U.S. occupation of Haiti?
a.
Beyond the Horizon
b.
Summer
and Smoke
c.
A Moon for Misbegotten
d.
The Emperor Jones
16.
Which play by O’Neil failed?
a.
Summer and Smoke
b.
Beyond the Horizon
c.
A Moon for Misbegotten
d.
The Emperor Jones
17.
What is the title of the play by T. Williams “memory play”?
a.
A Streetcar Named Desire
b.
The Glass Menagerie
c.
Summer and Smoke
d.
Garden District
18.
Which play by T. Williams tells the story about young man Tom and
his disable sister Laura?
a.
A streetcar Named Desire
b.
The Glass Menagerie
c.
Summer and Smoke
d.
Garden District
19.
Find the example of poetry by T. Williams
a.
Garden District
b.
Summer and Smoke
c.
In the
Winter of Cities
d.
Beyond the Horizon
20.
Which novel by T. Wilder tells the story of several unrelated people
who happen to be on a bridge in Peru while it collapses?
a.
The Merchant of Yonkers
b.
The Skin of our Teeth
c.
The Bridge of San Luis Del Rey
d.
The Ides of March
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21.
Who wrote the libretti to the “The Long Christmas Dinner” opera.
a.
C. Odets
b.
T. Wilder
c.
E. O’Neil
d.
A. Miller
22.
Which play by Wilder was inspired by Stein’s novel “The Making of
Americans”
a.
Our Town
b.
Shadow of a Doubt
c.
The
Long Christmas Dinner
d.
Garden District
23.
Which novel by Wilder dedicated to anti-fascist Italian writer Lauro
De Bosis?
a.
Shadow of a Doubt
b.
The Ideas of March
c.
The Merchant of Yonkers
d.
The Skin of Our Teeth
24.
Which play by Wilder was reworked into “The Matchmaker”?
a.
Shadow of a Doubt
b.
The Ideas of March
c.
The Merchant of Yonkers
d.
The
Skin of Our Teeth
25.
Which of these plays are in comedy genre?
a.
Shadow of a Doubt
b.
The Ideas of March
c.
The Merchant of Younkers
d.
The Skin of Our Teeth
26.
Find the play and author which is about a former prostitute who falls
in love.
a.
Golden Boy by C. Odits
b.
Summer and Smoke by T. Williams
c.
Garden District by E. O’Neil
d.
Anna Christie by E. O’Neil
27.
Which play by O’Neil contains political topics as anarchism and
socialism?
a.
Anna Christie
b.
Garden District
c.
The Iceman Cometh
d.
After the Fall
28.
Whose words are these –“ I want to be an artist or nothing”?
a.
C. Odets
b.
A. Miller
c.
E. O’Neil
d.
T. Williams
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29.
Who of American playwrights vowed to create
a theatre in America ,
stripped of sentimentally.
a.
C. Odets
b.
A. Miller
c.
E. O’Neil
d.
T. Williams
30.
Which hero from A. Miller’s play makes his way “on a smile and a
shoeshine”?
a.
Willy Loman, Death of a Salesman
b.
Monroe, The Misfits
c.
Maggie, After the fall
d.
Betty. The Crucible
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