1. The Hairy Ape is a 1922 expressionist play by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It is about a beastly, unthinking laborer known as Yank, the protagonist of the play, as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by _______ ?
A:) the rich
B:) Social Class
C:) Industry
D:) Politician
springline- Correct option: A:) the rich
2. The Hairy Ape; At first, Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an ocean liner, and is highly confident in his physical power over the ship's engines and his men. However, when the rich daughter of an industrialist in the steel business refers to him as a ‘faints’, Yank undergoes a crisis of identity and so starts his mental and physical deterioration. He leaves the ship and wanders into ______?
A:) Seward
B:) Auckland
C:) Manhattan
D:) Vancouver
springline- Correct option: C:) Manhattan
3. The Hairy Ape; In a fight for social belonging, Yank's mental state disintegrates into animalistic, and in the end he is defeated by an ape in which Yank's character has been reflected. The Hairy Ape is a portrayal of the impact industrialization and social class has on the dynamic character _________?
A:) Mildred
B:) Long
C:) Paddy
D:) Yank
springline- Correct option: D:) Yank
4. The Hairy Ape; Who is an aged ship worker and he is able to see the monotony of the work and is seemingly aware of the hierarchy of capitalist society and he could be seen as symbolizing the voice of reason and disappears midway through the play as Yank begins his rebellious quest ?
A:) Mildred
B:) Secretary
C:) Long
D:) Paddy
springline- Correct option: D:) Paddy
5. The Hairy Ape; Long — Another ship worker who accompanies Yank to Fifth Avenue where his initial act of rebelling against the upper class takes place. Mildred Douglas— A young, wealthy socialite who faints at the sight of Yank working in the ship. Terrified of his behavior and appearance, she calls him a _______?
A:) filthy brute
B:) filthy beast
C:) filthy animal
D:) filthy ape
springline- Correct option: B:) filthy beast
6. The Hairy Ape; In the firemen's forecastle of a cruise ship that has just sailed from New York for a trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Off-duty men are talking and singing drunkenly. Who portrayed as a leader among the men, is confident in his strength to fuel the machinery of the ship and the world?
A:) Long
B:) Mildred
C:) Yank
D:) Paddy
springline- Correct option: C:) Yank
7. The Hairy Ape; Yank shows particular contempt toward two other firemen: Long, an Englishman with socialist leanings, and Paddy who reflects wistfully on the days of wind-powered sailing ships. Paddy who is a old_______?
A:) Scottish man
B:) Italian
C:) German man
D:) Irishman
springline- Correct option: D:) Irishman
8. The Hairy Ape; Mildred Douglas (a steel tycoon's daughter) and her aunt are talking above deck on the ship whilst sunbathing. They argue over Mildred's desire to do social work, ending only when two officers come to escort her below decks for her planned visit to the ________?
A:) ship's stokehole
B:) boat’s stokehole
C:) Island
D:) Spain Stokehole
springline- Correct option: A:) ship's stokehole
9. The Hairy Ape; In the stokehole, Yank and the other firemen take pride in their daily work. Yank does not notice Mildred when she enters, and instead shouts threats toward the unseen engineer ordering the men to keep coaling the engines. Who stop to turn when she enters?
A:) guide
B:) Long
C:) the man
D:) Paddy
springline- Correct option: C:) the man
10. The Hairy Ape; In the firemen's forecastle yet again. Yank is mulling over the incident in the stokehole. The other men try to understand his fury by questioning him and asking if he is in love. Yank is infuriated at Mildred for claiming that he resembles a hairy ape. He becomes enraged and tries to charge after Mildred in _______?
A:) revenge
B:) Love
C:) calm
D:) angry
springline- Correct option: A:) revenge
11. The Hairy Ape; On Fifth Avenue in New York, the ship has returned from its cruise. Yank and Long argue over how best to attack the upper class while admiring how clean the city is. Still obsessing with avenging himself against Mildred, Yank rudely accosts several churchgoers that come out into the streets as Long flees the scene. Yank punches a ____?
A:) Policeman
B:) gentleman
C:) women
D:) Paddy
springline- Correct option: B:) gentleman
12. The Hairy Ape; The night at the prison , Yank has begun serving a 30-day sentence. Seeing the prison as a zoo, he tells the other inmates of how he wound up there. One of them tells him about the Industrial Workers of the World and suggests that he think about joining. The prison on the place of______?
A:) Ionians Island
B:) Blackwell's Island
C:) Malta’s Island
D:) Smith’s Island
springline- Correct option: B:) Blackwell's Island
13. The Hairy Ape; Enraged by the thought of Mildred and her father again, Yank starts to bend the bars of his cell in an attempt to escape, but the guards retaliate in force.A month later, Yank visits the local _________?
A:) WWI office
B:) IWI office
C:) IWW office
D:) IIW office
springline- Correct option: C:) IWW office
14. The Hairy Ape; The following evening, Yank visits the zoo. He sympathizes with a gorilla, thinking they are one and the same. He releases the animal from his cage and approaches it to introduce himself as if they were friends. Who attacks Yank, fatally crushing his ribs, and throws Yank into the cage where he dies?
A:) The gorilla
B:) the tiger
C:) the lion
D:) the Shark
springline- Correct option: A:) The gorilla
15. One common analysis of the play it as an Existentialist piece in reference to the protagonist himself experiencing an existential crisis. Yank believed himself to be the sole provider for the ocean liner; he was content because he believed his work was worth something. When he is called a ‘filthy beast’ by Mildred in scene ______?
A:) one
B:) two
C:) three
D:) four
springline- Correct option: B:) two
16. Not only does O’Neill explore the depths of the existential crisis, but he also delves into the primitive nature of Man. He presents his readers with a protagonist that exhibits almost every facet of what it means to be _____?
A:) manly
B:) social class
C:) laddish
D:) masculine
springline- Correct option: D:) masculine
17. Yank has also been interpreted as representative of the human condition, alienated from nature by his isolated consciousness, unable to find belonging in any social group or environment. This is a result from the industrialization of both the ship and _________?
A:) New York
B:) England
C:) Italy
D:) Ireland
springline- Correct option: A:) New York
18. Many critics often argued over O’Neill’s conception of race in The Hairy Ape. Yank, who often worked with coal, is said to have ‘blackface’ through the play. This interpretation of ‘blackface’ has led to a debate about Yank’s race. The coal combined with an unshaven face has covered the whiteness of his face, discarding his ____?
A:) social class
B:) nationality
C:) masculine
D:) identity
springline- Correct option: B:) nationality
19. Yank emotional detriment reflects his physical deterioration as well, where finally at the end of the play he has taken on animalistic qualities. In the last scene, Yank tries to explain to the ape that they are the same; his efforts to show their similar qualities end in Yank’s death. Yank’s defeat by the ape is degenerating to his mental state as well as his social class and______ ?
A:) race
B:) status
C:) struggles
D:) knowledge
springline- Correct option: A:) race
20. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright _____?
A:) Leo Tolstoy
B:) Alexander Pushkin
C:) Anton Chekhov
D:) Vladimir Nabokov
springline- Correct option: C:) Anton Chekhov
21. 'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in American English vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society. They struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. Of his very few comedies, only one is well-known (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of ______?
A:) comedy
B:) tragedy
C:) philosophy
D:) socialism
springline- Correct option: B:) tragedy
22. O'Neill was born in a hotel, the Barrett House, at Broadway and 43rd Street, on what was then Longacre Square (now Times Square). A commemorative plaque was first dedicated there in 1957. He was the son of Irish immigrant actor ______?
A:) James O'Neill
B:) Henry O’Neill
C:) Edward O’Neill
D:) Charles O’Neill
springline- Correct option: A:) James O'Neill
23. O'Neill , after his experience in 1912–13 at a sanatorium where he was recovering from tuberculosis, he decided to devote himself full-time to writing plays the events immediately prior to going to the sanatorium are dramatized in his masterpiece,_________ ?
A:) The Iceman Cometh
B:) The Hairy Ape
C:) Mouring Becomes Electra
D:) Long Day's Journey into Night
springline- Correct option: D:) Long Day's Journey into Night
24. O'Neill had previously been employed by the New London Telegraph, writing poetry as well as reporting. During the 1910s O'Neill was a regular on the Greenwich Village literary scene, where he also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party of America founder_____?
A:) Walt Whitman
B:) George Peter
C:) John Reed
D:) John Richardson
springline- Correct option: C:) John Reed
25. In an early one-act play, The Web , written in 1913, O'Neill first explored the darker themes that he later thrived on. Here he focused on the brothel world and the lives of prostitutes, which also play a role in some fourteen of his later plays. O'Neill's first published play, Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in 1920 to great acclaim, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ________?
A:) Fiction
B:) Prose
C:) Poetry
D:) Drama
springline- Correct option: D:) Drama
26. O'Neill's best-known plays include Anna Christie (Pulitzer Prize 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (Pulitzer Prize 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness!, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been. When he received the Nobel Prize for Literature _______?
A:) 1934
B:) 1936
C:) 1938
D:) 1940
springline- Correct option: C:) 1938
27. In 1956 Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death. It was produced on stage to tremendous critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize in _______?
A:) 1957
B:) 1958
C:) 1959
D:) 1960
springline- Correct option: A:) 1957
28. In 1929, O'Neill and Monterey moved to the Loire Valley in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire. During the early 1930s they returned to the United States and lived in Sea Island, Georgia, at a house called Casa Genotta. He moved to Danville, California in ________?
A:) 1937
B:) 1938
C:) 1942
D:) 1942
springline- Correct option: A:) 1937
29. O'Neill spent several years at sea, during which he suffered from depression and alcoholism. Despite this, he had a deep love for the sea and it became a prominent theme in many of his plays, several of which are set on board ships like those on which he worked. The O'Neill family reunited for summers at the Monte Cristo Cottage in________?
A:) New England
B:) New London
C:) Spain
D:) Ireland
springline- Correct option: B:) New London
30. Bob ‘Yank’ Smith — Man who works on a ship. He is a leader among the other workers and finds himself rebelling against the authoritarian upper class he feels does not appreciate his hard work. A Secretary of an Organization Works in a Labor Union and dismisses Yank’s ideas of violent rebellion in favor of peaceful strikes and the passing out of _______?
A:) Notes
B:) Manuscripts
C:) pamphlets
D:) letters
springline- Correct option: C:) pamphlets