Identification Of American Plays After 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Identification Of American Plays After 1925.

This includes works like The Crucible, West Side Story, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Angels in America

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Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, and Harold Mitchell are major characters from which of the following plays?

Twelve Angry Men Our Town Death of a Salesman Mourning Becomes Electra A Streetcar Named Desire

Which of the following is an English-language opera that tells the story of a black beggar and his lover in Charleston, South Carolina and is often discussed in terms of its racial significance and shortcomings?

Show Boat Uncle Tom’s Cabin West Side Story Porgy and Bess Anything Goes

Who is the author of the canonical American play The Crucible?

Tom Stoppard Tennessee Williams Eugene O’Neill David Mamet Arthur Miller

Which Tennessee Williams “memory play” features the reminisces of Tom, the protagonist, about three other characters and is renowned for its examination of family ties and mental illness?

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie Candles to the Sun A Streetcar Named Desire Not About Nightingales

Which of the following works is based on a play by William Shakespeare?

A Raisin in the Sun Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Angels in America A Streetcar Named Desire West Side Story

Which American playwright is known for works such as Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, and Mourning Becomes Electra?

David Mamet Tom Stoppard Neil Simon Tennessee Williams Eugene O’Neill

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner focuses on sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in 1980s New York City.

The Way We Live Now Angels in America Safe Sex As Is Andre’s Mother

This 1965 comedy by Neil Simon follows the ill-suited relationship between roommates Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison. What play is it?

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead A Raisin in the Sun The Philadelphia Story Waiting for Lefty The Odd Couple

Which 1959 play takes its title from the Langston Hughes poem “A Dream Deferred”?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Glengarry Glen Ross The Philadelphia Story A Raisin in the Sun

Mary Cavan Tyrone, James Tyrone, and Cathleen are main characters in which of the following American plays?

Six Degrees of Separation

Night Mother

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

A Raisin in the Sun

The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Identification Of American Plays After 1925
Questions: 10
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