This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Identification Of World Plays Before 1925.
This includes works like The Prince of Parthia, Androboros, Andre, The Adulateur, The Defeat, and The Group.
Which eighteenth-century German poet and playwright was responsible for dramas such as Wilhelm Tell, The Maid of Orleans, The Robbers, and the Wallenstein trilogy?
Which famous nineteenth-century Scandinavian playwright wrote A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Peer Gynt, and An Enemy of the People?
Several nineteenth-century European plays were based on which famous novel-in-verse of the same name by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin?
The play Antigone, which concerns a Theban legend of civil war and an unsanctified dead body, was written by which of the following Greek dramatists?
In this ancient Greek play, a man abandoned as a child fulfills a prophecy by becoming the king of Thebes, murdering his father Laius and marrying his mother Jocasta in the process. Which play is it?
Which tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides features the story of Jason’s wife, a woman who is abandoned for a Corinthian princess and subsequently seeks a bloody revenge?
This Athenian playwright is known for comedies such as The Frogs, The Clouds, and Peace. Who is it?
Which of the following Greek comedies concerns a group of women who try to end the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their husbands and lovers?
This trilogy of Greek tragedies was written by Aeschylus and follows the story of the doomed House of Atreus. What is it?
Which classic Greek play genre used pranks, burlesque elements and choruses of inebriated goat-like males (often equipped with phallic props) to portray material from Greek mythology or epic poetry?
Satyr play
Comedy
Bacchanalia
Satire
Tragicomedy