1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It examines the complexities of the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George. When a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey?
A:) One winter day
B:) one morning
C:) one evening
D:) one night
springline- Correct option: C:) one evening
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: The play is in three acts, normally taking a little less than three hours to perform, with two 10-minute intermissions. The title is a pun on the song ‘Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?‘ from Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs in ______?
A:) 1933
B:) 1934
C:) 1935
D:) 1936
springline- Correct option: A:) 1933
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived on the modern stage. When it won the Tony Award?
A:) 1961
B:) 1962
C:) 1963
D:) 1964
springline- Correct option: C:) 1963
4. George and Martha engage in dangerous emotional games. George is an associate professor of history and Martha is the daughter of the president of the college where George teaches. After they return home from a faculty party, Martha reveals she has invited a young married couple she met at the party over for a drink. The guests arrive—Nick, _______?
A:) physics professor
B:) biology professor
C:) English Professor
D:) Math Professor
springline- Correct option: B:) biology professor
5. Martha taunts George aggressively, and he retaliates with his usual passive aggression. Martha tells an embarrassing story about how she humiliated him with a sucker punch in front of her father. During the telling, Who appears with a gun ?
A:) George
B:) Martha
C:) Nick
D:) Honey
springline- Correct option: A:) George
6. Traditionally, ‘Walpurgisnacht‘ is the name of an annual witches' meeting (satiric in the context of the play). Nick and George are sitting outside. As they talk about their wives, Nick says Honey had a ‘hysterical pregnancy‘. George tells Nick about a time he went to a gin mill with some boarding school classmates, one of whom had accidentally killed his______?
A:) father
B:) mother
C:) sister
D:) brother
springline- Correct option: B:) mother
7. This friend was laughed at for ordering ‘bergin’. The following summer, the friend accidentally killed his father while driving, was committed to an asylum, and never spoke again. George and Nick discuss the possibility of having children and eventually argue and insult each other. After they rejoin the women in the house, Martha and Nick dance suggestively. Martha also reveals the truth about George's _______?
A:) script writing
B:) story writing
C:) creative writing
D:) illusion
springline- Correct option: C:) creative writing
8. George had tried to publish a novel about a boy who accidentally killed both of his parents (with the implication that the deaths were actually murder), but Martha's father would not let it be published. George responds by attacking Martha, but Nick separates them. George suggests a new game called ‘Get the Guests’. George insults and mocks Honey with an extemporaneous tale of _______?
A:) the Mouse
B:) The Gun Shot
C:) the Mousie
D:) the Game of play
springline- Correct option: C:) the Mousie
9. Martha starts to act seductively toward Nick in George's presence. George pretends to react calmly, reading a book. As Martha and Nick walk upstairs, George throws his book against the door. In all productions until ___?
A:) 2002
B:) 2003
C:) 2004
D:) 2005
springline- Correct option: D:) 2005
10. Which is the expulsion or attempted expulsion of a supposed evil spirit from a person or place and it seems that Martha and George intend to remove the great desire they have always had for a child by continuing their story of their imagined son and his death?
A:) Illusion
B:) Exorcism
C:) Spiritualism
D:) Realism
springline- Correct option: B:) Exorcism
11. Martha appears alone in the living room, shouting at the others to come out from hiding. Nick joins her. The doorbell rings: it is George, with a bunch of snapdragons in his hand, calling out, ‘Flores para los muertos’ (flowers for the deaD:) , a reference to the play and movie _____?
A:) The Crucible
B:) Angles in America
C:) Death of Salesman
D:) A Streetcar Named Desire
springline- Correct option: D:) A Streetcar Named Desire
12. George then prompts her for her ‘recitation’, in which they describe, in a bizarre duet, their son's upbringing. Martha describes their son's beauty and talents and then accuses George of ruining his life. As this segment progresses, George recites sections of the Libera me part of the Requiem Mass, the Latin mass for the _____?
A:) dead
B:) alive
C:) love
D:) myth
springline- Correct option: A:) death
13. Overcome with horror and pity, Nick and Honey leave. Martha suggests they could invent a new imaginary child, but George forbids the idea, saying it was time for the game to end. The play ends with Whose singing, ‘Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
A:) Martha
B:) Nick
C:) George
D:) Honey
springline- Correct option: C:) George
14. Albee has said that the title of the play ‘means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf … who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.’ Albee’s interest in the theme of reality versus illusion is expressed in a number of his plays. In discussing Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? he cites Nietzsche’s interpretation of the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy of ancient Greek drama, as described in _________?
A:) The Birth of Tragedy
B:) The Birth of Romance
C:) The Death of Tragedy
D:) The Death Of Comedy
springline- Correct option: A:) The Birth of Tragedy
15. According to Whom, Albee’s characters create illusions to help them evade feelings of their own inadequacy—as ‘George and Martha have evaded the ugliness of their marriage by taking refuge in illusion and the play demonstrates ‘how his characters must rid themselves of falsehood and return to the world in which they must live?
A:) Kenneth Koch
B:) Denise Levertov
C:) Lawrence Kingsley
D:) John Berryman
springline- Correct option: C:) Lawrence Kingsley
16. The distinction between truth and illusion is at times deliberately unclear. The existence of the child, the ‘murder’ by George of his parents, or Honey’s ‘pregnancy’ may be illusions, but they still have a reality to the characters. Illusions may be exorcised in the play, but no truth or apparent reality is supplied in its place. ‘All truth’, Who says, ‘becomes relative it ?
A:) Martha
B:) Nick
C:) George
D:) Honey
springline- Correct option: C:) George
17. Albee said Martha and George were based on two of his friends, the married New York socialites Willard Maas and Marie Menken. Maas was a professor of literature at Wagner College and Menken was an experimental filmmaker and _________?
A:) doctor
B:) musician
C:) writer
D:) painter
springline- Correct option: D:) painter
18. Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and How many of his works won the Tony Award for Best Play ?
A:) one
B:) two
C:) three
D:) four
springline- Correct option: B:) two
19. Albee's works are often considered frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and ________?
A:) Jean Genet
B:) Richard Wilbur
C:) Kenneth Koch
D:) Gray Snyder
springline- Correct option: A:) Jean Genet
20. Albee's middle period comprised plays that explored the psychology of maturing, marriage, and sexual relationships. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent postwar American theatre in ______?
A:) the early 1970s
B:) the early 1960s
C:) the later 1970s
D:) the later 1960s
springline- Correct option: B:) the early 1960s
21. The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities is a book by James Thurber first published in 1931 by Harper and Brothers. It collects a number of short humorous pieces, most of which had appeared in The New Yorker, and an introduction by ______?
A:) William Faulkner
B:) A.R. Ammons
C:) E. B. White
D:) Mark Strand
springline- Correct option: C:) E. B. White
22. James Grover Thurber was an American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books. He was born in__?
A:) 1894
B:) 1895
C:) 1896
D:) 1897
springline- Correct option: A:) 1894
23. From 1918 to 1920, Thurber worked as a code clerk for the United States Department of State, first in Washington, D.C. and then at the embassy in Paris. On returning to Columbus, he began his career as a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch from 1921 to 1924. During part of this time, he reviewed books, films, and plays in a weekly column called ______?
A:) Faith and Religion
B:) Credos and Curios
C:) Cult and Curios
D:) Communion and Religion
springline- Correct option: B:) Credos and Curios
24. In 1925, Thurber moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, obtaining a job as a reporter with the New York Evening Post. He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1927 as an editor, with the help of E.B. White, his friend and fellow New Yorker contributor. His career as a cartoonist began in ___?
A:) 1930
B:) 1931
C:) 1932
D:) 1934
springline- Correct option: A:) 1930
25. Thurber married Helen Wismer (1902–1986) in June 1935. After meeting Mark Van Doren on a ferry to Martha's Vineyard Thurber began summering in Cornwall, along with many other prominent artists and authors of the time. After three years of renting Thurber found a home, which he referred to as ‘_______?
A:) The Good Place
B:) The Heavenly Place
C:) The Great Good Place
D:) One Peaceful place
springline- Correct option: C:) The Great Good Place
26. Albee's first play, The Zoo Story, written in three weeks, was first staged in Berlin in 1959 before premiering Off-Broadway in 1960. His next, The Death of Bessie Smith, similarly premiered in Berlin before arriving in New York. Albee's work typically criticized the ______?
A:) American wit
B:) American dream
C:) American wiser
D:) American Growth
springline- Correct option: B:) American dream
27. A member of the Dramatists Guild Council, Albee received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama—for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994). Albee was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in _______?
A:) 1971
B:) 1972
C:) 1973
D:) 1974
springline- Correct option: B:) 1972
28. In 1985, Albee was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 1999, Albee received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005); the gold medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980); as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts are both in year of ______?
A:) 1994
B:) 1995
C:) 1996
D:) 1997
springline- Correct option: C:) 1996
29. The Owl in the Attic: In Part Consists a number of short stories featuring the Mr and Mrs Monroe and which contain many autobiographical elements. The third part which was Inspired by A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, which was written by____?
A:) Mr. H. W. Fowler
B:) William Safire
C:) Martin Manser
D:) Douglas Adams
springline- Correct option: A:) Mr. H. W. Fowler
30. The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities is a 1931 short fiction and humor collection by author and illustrator James Thurber, featuring pieces that were previously published in ________?
A:) Reed Elsevier
B:) Cengage
C:) The New Yorker
D:) The American
springline- Correct option: C:) The New Yorker