1. Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for more performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in ______?
A:) 1936
B:) 1940
C:) 1945
D:) 1946
springline- Correct option: B:) 1940
2. Death of a Salesman; The play contains a variety of themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth, and betrayal. It explores the psychological chaos of the protagonist, and the capitalist society's impact on his life. When It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play?
A:) 1940
B:) 1944
C:) 1949
D:) 1950
springline- Correct option: C:) 1949
3. Death of a Salesman; William Willy Loman’s first name, Willy, reflects this childlike aspect as well as sounding like the question ‘Will he?’ His last name gives the feel of Willy's being a ‘low man’, someone who will not succeed; however, this popular interpretation of his last name was dismissed by Miller. How many years he old?
A:) 61
B:) 62
C:) 63
D:) 64
springline- Correct option: C:) 63
4. Linda Loman: Willy's loyal and loving wife. Linda is passively supportive and docile when Willy talks unrealistically about hopes for the future, although she seems to have a good knowledge of what is really going on. She chides her sons, particularly ______?
A:) Bernard
B:) Stanley
C:) Happy
D:) Biff
springline- Correct option: D:) Biff
5. Biff Loman who is a Willy's elder son. Biff was a football star with a lot of potential in high school, but failed math his senior year and dropped out of summer school when he saw Willy with another woman while visiting him in _____?
A:) School
B:) Boston
C:) Street
D:) Shop
springline- Correct option: B:) Boston
6. Who is Willy's somewhat wisecracking yet kind and understanding neighbor and he pities Willy and frequently lends him money and comes over to play cards with him, although Willy often treats him poorly ?
A:) Charley
B:) Bernard
C:) Howard
D:) Stanley
springline- Correct option: A:) Charley
7. Bernard Who is Charley's son and in Willy's flashbacks, he is a nerd, and Willy forces him to give Biff test answers. He worships Biff and does anything for him. Later, he is a very successful _______?
A:) doctor
B:) business man
C:) lawyer
D:) sales manager
springline- Correct option: C:) lawyer
8. A girl whom Happy picks up at the restaurant. She is very pretty and claims she was on several magazine covers. Happy lies to her, making himself and Biff look like they are important and successful. What is the name of the girl?
A:) Jenny
B:) Letta
C:) Older waiter
D:) Miss Forsythe
springline- Correct option: D:) Miss Forsythe
9. Willy Loman returns home exhausted after a business trip he has cancelled. Worried over Willy's state of mind and recent car accident, Who suggests that he ask his boss Howard Wagner to allow him to work in his home city so he will not have to travel?
A:) Biff
B:) Linda
C:) Happy
D:) Charley
springline- Correct option: B:) Linda
10. Biff and his younger brother, Happy, who is temporarily staying with Willy and Linda after Biff's unexpected return from the West, reminisce about their childhood together. They discuss their father's mental degeneration, which they have witnessed in the form of his constant indecisiveness and daydreaming about the boys' high school years. Who plans to make a business proposition?
A:) Charley
B:) Ben
C:) Happy
D:) Biff
springline- Correct option: D:) Biff
11. Biff impulsively steals a fountain pen. Willy then goes to the office of his neighbor Charley, where he runs into Charley's son Bernard, now a successful lawyer. Bernard tells him that Biff originally wanted to go to ________ ?
A:) Winter School
B:) Boston
C:) summer school
D:) Play School
springline- Correct option: C:) summer school
12. Happy, Biff, and Willy meet for dinner at a restaurant, but Willy refuses to hear bad news from Biff. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to their father. Biff tries to tell him what happened as Willy gets angry and slips into a flashback of what happened in _____?
A:) Office
B:) Street
C:) House
D:) Boston
springline- Correct option: D:) Boston
13. The argument reaches an apparent climax as Biff hugs Willy and begins to cry as he tries to get Willy to let go of his unrealistic expectations. Rather than listen to what Biff actually says, Willy appears to believe his son has forgiven him and will follow in his footsteps, and after Linda goes upstairs to bed, lapses one final time into a hallucination, thinking he is talking to his long-dead brother________?
A:) Ben
B:) Charley
C:) Howard
D:) Letta
springline- Correct option: A:) Ben
14. Death of a Salesman uses flashbacks to present Willy's memory during the reality. The illusion not only ‘suggests the past, but also presents the lost pastoral life.’ The more he indulges in the illusion, the harder it is for him to face reality. Who is the only one who realizes that the whole family lived in the lies and tries to face the truth ?
A:) Happy
B:) Jenny
C:) Biff
D:) Linda
springline- Correct option: C:) Biff
15. Willy Loman dreams of being a successful salesman like Dave Singleman, somebody who has both wealth and freedom. Willy believes that the key to success is being well-liked, and his frequent flashbacks show that he measures happiness in terms of wealth and _______?
A:) popularity
B:) Family
C:) Love
D:) Health
springline- Correct option: A:) popularity
16. The hard work and dedication of Charley and Bernard are apparent from the Death of a Salesman. Willy criticizes Charley and Bernard throughout the play, but it is not because he hates them. The models of business success provided in the play all argue against Willy's ______?
A:) psychological theory
B:) Behavioral theory
C:) personality theory
D:) Emergent theory
springline- Correct option: C:) personality theory
17. Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright , essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge , revised . The drama Death of a Salesman has been numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the _________?
A:) 19th century
B:) 20th century
C:) 18th century
D:) mid 19th century
springline- Correct option: B:) 20th century
18. Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1980, Miller received the St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2001, Prince of Asturias Award in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003, as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in ______?
A:) 1996
B:) 1997
C:) 1998
D:) 1999
springline- Correct option: D:) 1999
19. Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, and published an account of his early years under the title ‘A Boy Grew in Brooklyn’; the second of three children of Augusta (Barnett) and Isidore Miller. Miller was Jewish . His family, including Miller's younger sister , ________?
A:) Betty Friedan
B:) Joan Copeland
C:) Audre Lorde
D:) Amelia Earhart
springline- Correct option: B:) Joan Copeland
20. At the University of Michigan, Miller first majored in journalism and worked for the student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, as well as the satirical Gargoyle Humor Magazine. It was during this time that he wrote his first play, ______ ?
A:) No Villain
B:) The Crucible
C:) The Price
D:) Broken Glass
springline- Correct option: A:) No Villain
21. Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwood Award for No Villain. The award brought him his first recognition and led him to begin to consider that he could have a career as a playwright. Miller enrolled in a playwriting seminar taught by the influential Professor______?
A:) Kenneth Rowe
B:) Edward Albee
C:) Tony Kushner
D:) Joe Dimaggio
springline- Correct option: A:) Kenneth Rowe
22. Rowe emphasized how a play is built in order to achieve its intended effect, or what Miller called ‘the dynamics of play construction’. Rowe provided realistic feedback along with much-needed encouragement, and became a lifelong friend. Miller retained strong ties to his alma mater throughout the rest of his life, establishing the university's Arthur Miller Award in 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in_______?
A:) 1997
B:) 1998
C:) 1999
D:) 2000
springline- Correct option: C:) 1999
23. In 1948, Miller built a small studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. There, in less than a day, he wrote Act I of Death of a Salesman. Within six weeks, he completed the rest of the play, one of the classics of world theater. Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on ______?
A:) March 11, 1947
B:) May 12, 1948
C:) June 11, 1949
D:) February 10, 1949
springline- Correct option: D:) February 10, 1949
24. Death of a Salesman : The play was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, winning a Tony Award for Best Author, the New York Drama Circle Critics' Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was the first play to win all three of these major awards. The play was performed_______
A:) 632 times
B:) 714 times
C:) 742 times
D:) 532 times
springline- Correct option: C:) 742 times
25. In 1949, Miller exchanged letters with Eugene O'Neill regarding Miller's production of All My Sons. O'Neill had sent Miller a congratulatory telegram; in response, he wrote a letter that consisted of a few paragraphs detailing his gratitude for the telegram, apologizing for not responding earlier, and inviting Eugene to the opening of __________?
A:) All my sons
B:) After the fall
C:) Death of a Salesman
D:) No Villain
springline- Correct option: C:) Death of a Salesman
26. Miller also wrote the penetrating family drama, The Price, produced in 1968. It was Miller's most successful play since Death of a Salesman. In 1968, Miller attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate for Eugene McCarthy. When Miller's works were banned in the Soviet Union after he campaigned for the freedom of dissident writers?
A:) 1969
B:) 1970
C:) 1971
D:) 1972
springline- Correct option: A:) 1969
27. In 1983, Miller traveled to China to produce and direct Death of a Salesman at the People's Art Theatre in Beijing. The play was a success in China and When, Salesman in Beijing, a book about Miller's experiences in Beijing, was published in ________?
A:) 1986
B:) 1988
C:) 1989
D:) 1991
springline- Correct option: C:) 1989
28. Miller's lecture was entitled ‘On Politics and the Art of Acting.’ Miller's lecture analyzed political events in terms of the ‘arts of performance’, and it drew attacks from some conservatives such as Jay Nordlinger. Who called it ‘a disgrace’, and who argued that Miller was not legitimately a ‘scholar ?
A:) James Dougherty
B:) George Orwell
C:) John Proctor
D:) George Will
springline- Correct option: D:) George Will
29. On May 1, 2002, Miller was awarded Spain's Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature as ‘the undisputed master of modern drama’. Later that year, Ingeborg Morath died of lymphatic cancer at the age of 78. The following year Miller won the Jerusalem Prize. Miller's final play, ______ ?
A:) The Last Yankee
B:) Resurrection Blues
C:) Finishing the Picture
D:) A Night Out
springline- Correct option: C:) Finishing the Picture
30. In his book Trinity of Passion, author Who conjectures that Miller was ‘a member of a writer's unit of the Communist Party around 1946,’ using the pseudonym Matt Wayne, and editing a drama column in the magazine The New Masses?
A:) Edward Albee
B:) Alan M. Wald
C:) August Wilson
D:) Inge Morath
springline- Correct option: B:) Alan M. Wald