Contexts Of World Plays Before 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Contexts Of World Plays Before 1925.

This includes plays like Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Clouds, Ode to Joy, and A Doll’s House (1879).

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Which of these ancient Greek playwrights was not a tragedian?

Aristophanes Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides

The ancient Greek character of Tiresias appears all but which of the following works?

Seven Against Thebes Lysistrata Oedipus Rex Antigone The Bacchae

German playwright Friedrich Schiller was a contemporary of and corresponded with which fellow countryman?

Gunter Grass Henrik Ibsen Bertolt Brecht Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rainer Maria Rilke

Which of the following works is set in ancient Thebes?

The Iliad The Odyssey The Oresteia Oedipus Rex Medea

Which of the following plays is set in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens?

Medea Agamemnon The Oresteia Lysistrata The Frogs

Which of the following ancient Greek works does not contain overt feminist elements or a strong female character?

The Oresteia The Odyssey Medea Oedipus Rex Lysistrata

Which of the following plays is set in the ancient Greek city-state of Corinth?

Medea The Frogs The Bacchae Iphigenia Agamemnon

NORA: Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen. Be sure the children do not see it until this evening, when it is dressed. (To the PORTER, taking out her purse.) How much? PORTER: Sixpence. NORA: There is a shilling. No, keep the change. (The PORTER thanks her, and goes out. NORA shuts the door. She is laughing to herself, as she takes off her hat and coat. She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two; then goes cautiously to her husband"s door and listens.) Yes, he is in. (Still humming, she goes to the table on the right.) HELMER: (calls out from his room). Is that my little lark twittering out there? NORA: (busy opening some of the parcels). Yes, it is! HELMER: Is it my little squirrel bustling about? NORA: Yes! HELMER: When did my squirrel come home? NORA: Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.) Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought. HELMER: Don’t disturb me. (A little later, he opens the door and looks into the room, pen in hand.) Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again? Who is the author of this play?

Anton Chekhov Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friedrich Schiller Henrik Ibsen Bertolt Brecht

NORA: Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen. Be sure the children do not see it until this evening, when it is dressed. (To the PORTER, taking out her purse.) How much? PORTER: Sixpence. NORA: There is a shilling. No, keep the change. (The PORTER thanks her, and goes out. NORA shuts the door. She is laughing to herself, as she takes off her hat and coat. She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two; then goes cautiously to her husband"s door and listens.) Yes, he is in. (Still humming, she goes to the table on the right.) HELMER: (calls out from his room). Is that my little lark twittering out there? NORA: (busy opening some of the parcels). Yes, it is! HELMER: Is it my little squirrel bustling about? NORA: Yes! HELMER: When did my squirrel come home? NORA: Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.) Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought. HELMER: Don’t disturb me. (A little later, he opens the door and looks into the room, pen in hand.) Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again? In what historical setting was this play first performed?

Napoleonic era Elizabethan era Georgian era fin de siècle Romantic era

NORA: Hide the Christmas Tree carefully, Helen. Be sure the children do not see it until this evening, when it is dressed. (To the PORTER, taking out her purse.) How much? PORTER: Sixpence. NORA: There is a shilling. No, keep the change. (The PORTER thanks her, and goes out. NORA shuts the door. She is laughing to herself, as she takes off her hat and coat. She takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two; then goes cautiously to her husband"s door and listens.) Yes, he is in. (Still humming, she goes to the table on the right.) HELMER: (calls out from his room). Is that my little lark twittering out there? NORA: (busy opening some of the parcels). Yes, it is! HELMER: Is it my little squirrel bustling about? NORA: Yes! HELMER: When did my squirrel come home? NORA: Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket and wipes her mouth.) Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have bought. HELMER: Don’t disturb me. (A little later, he opens the door and looks into the room, pen in hand.) Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again? The author of this play also wrote all but which of the following plays?

The Wild Duck The Bear An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler Peer Gynt
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Title: Contexts Of World Plays Before 1925
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