Long Day’s Journey into Night
presents
American Playwrights
MCQs
Eugene O’Neill is an American
playwright of which century?
(a) The 20th century
(b) The 19th century
(c) The 18th century
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The 20th
century
What was the nostalgic dream of
Mary Tyrone?
(a) A ballerina
(b) A good wife or mother
(c) A bar attendant
(d) A nun or pianist
Question’s Answer: A good wife or
mother
Beyond the Horizon is written by
__.
(a) Tennesee Williams
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Edward Albee
(d) Eugene O’Neill
Question’s Answer: Eugene O’Neill
Who is the author of the Long
Day’s Journey into Night?
(a) Edward Albee
(b) Tennesee Williams
(c) Eugene O’Neill
(d) Samuel Beckett
Question’s Answer: Eugene O’Neill
O’Neill pass away in
(a) 1976
(b) 1945
(c) 1953
(d) 1963
Question’s Answer: 1953
(a) Jamie
(b) James
(c) Alcoholism and drug addiction
of Mary Tyrone
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Alcoholism and
drug addiction of Mary Tyrone
In The Hairy Ape O’Neill presents
(a) Realism with symbolic
expression
(b) Symbolism
(c) Realism
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Realism with
symbolic expression
Which of the following best refers
to O’Neill’s style?
(a) Mixture of many European
languages
(b) American English with an
accent
(c) Colloquial
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Colloquial
Which of O’Neill’s plays present the
American dream best?
(a) The Emperor Jones
(b) Beyond the Horizon
(c) The Hairy Ape
(d) Long Day’s Journey into Night
Question’s Answer: Beyond the
Horizon
Beyond the Horizon is a drama
about which of the following?
(a) Andrew Mayo
(b) Ruth
(c) Robert Mayo
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Robert Mayo

According to ________, “It isn’t
the end. It’s a free beginning…
beyond the horizon!”
(a) Andrew’ Mayo
(b) Ruth
(c) The consumptive dying Robert
Mayo
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The
consumptive dying Robert Mayo
The Hairy Ape is a drama which
can be labelled as
(a) Realistic
(b) American transcendentalist
(c) Expressionist
(d) Symbolist
Question’s Answer: Expressionist
The Hairy Ape portrays the life of
_____.
(a) Comedy of ancient and modern
life
(b) Post-Colonial America
(c) Early America
(d) Recent times
Question’s Answer: Comedy of
ancient and modern life
The Hairy Ape, a Play by Eugene
O’Neill, author presents a world
which can be described best as
(a) Brutal, stupid and profane
(b) Lovely
(c) Religious
(d) Advanced technological
superiority
Question’s Answer: Brutal, stupid
and profane
Yank realizes that
(a) He did not belong to this brutal
world
(b) Technology has given him
strength
(c) He was a man of progress
(d) He was rejected in spite of his
adapting the brutal expectations of
the world
Question’s Answer: He did not
belong to this brutal world
Yank found kinship with
(a) The ape in the zoo
(b) Paddy
(c) Mildred
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The ape in the
zoo
Ezra Mannon’s family in New
England are descendents of
(a) Calvinists
(b) Puritan
(c) Quackers
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Quackers
Christine developed an incestuous
relationship with
(a) Adam Brant
(b) Orin
(c) Peter
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Adam Brant
According to _________ in
Lazarus Laughed, “Fear not life!
You die-but there is no death for
man.”
(a) Caligula
(b) Tiberius
(c) Lazarus
(d) Miriam
Question’s Answer: Lazarus
In Lazarus Laughed. Lazarus is
killed the second time by which of
the following?
(a) Miriam
(b) Caligula
(c) Pompeia
(d) Tiberius
Question’s Answer: Caligula
In which drama of O’Neill these are
the parts.
“The Homecoming”. “The Hunted”,
and “The Haunted”?
(a) The Emperor Jones
(b) Mourning Becomes Electra
(c) Strange Interlude
(d) A Touch of the Poet
Question’s Answer: Mourning
Becomes Electra
Lazarus Laughed is O’Neill’s
(a) Symbolic drama
(b) Religious chorus
(c) Poetic drama with mystic
affirmation of life
(d) Tribute to Christian character
Question’s Answer: Poetic drama
with mystic affirmation of life
Mourning Becomes Electra is based
on the Greek myth of
(a) Bravery
(b) Incestuous love
(c) Futility of love and Life
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Incestuous love
Who avenges murder of Ezra
Mannon?
(a) Peter
(b) Hazel
(c) Lavinia
(d) Orm
Question’s Answer: Orm
Who is freed of puritan repressions
and grows in sensuality and
morality?
(a) Lavinia
(b) Hazel
(c) Christine
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lavinia
What happens after Lavinia makes
love to Peter?
(a) Peter leaves repelled by her
eagerness and she becomes a
recluse
(b) She is egged on to have
relationship with others.
(c) She is killed by Orm
(d) Peter is repulsed by her and
kills her
Question’s Answer: Peter leaves
repelled by her eagerness and she
becomes a recluse
According to ________, “Love is
not permitted to me. The dead are
too strong!”
(a) Christine
(b) Hazel
(c) Lavinia
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Lavinia
How the lovely Christine killed her
husband Orin?
(a) Administering pretending to
give him medicine poison
(b) Forcing a glass of wine laced
with poison
(c) Poisoning him in his sleep
(d) Strangling him in his sleep
Question’s Answer: Administering
pretending to give him medicine
poison
O’Neill was influenced by which of
the following?
(a) Ibsen and Strindberg
(b) Greek tragedies
(c) Shakespeare
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Greek
tragedies
Tom loves his mother but Tom
aspires to which of the following?
(a) Escape from the world and
progress
(b) Continue with his warehouse
job and advancing in it
(c) Continue with his warehouse
job
(d) Do nothing
Question’s Answer: Escape from
the world and progress
In O’Neill’s plays one sees “the
American family of
(a) Colonial era
(b) Colonial era to the present
(c) Present day
(d) None of A, B, and C time
Question’s Answer: Colonial era to
the present
Tennessee Williams is playwright of
the
(a) Post-Second World War period
(b) First World War period
(c) Recent times
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Post-Second
World War period
The Glass Managerie and A
Streetcar Named Desire are the
plays written by
(a) Eugene O’Neill
(b) Tennessee Williams
(c) Arthur Miller
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tennessee
Williams
Ananda hopes for a way out when
her son
(a) Leaves the tenement
(b) Keeps on supporting the family
(c) Tom finds a better job
(d) Becomes a mariner
Question’s Answer: Tom finds a
better job
The Glass Managerie is a play by
Tennessee Williams and is a play
of
(a) A mother whose children are
dead
(b) Sentiments and pathos of a
frustrated mother
(c) A successful mother
(d) A mother and her children who
are social failures
Question’s Answer: Sentiments and
pathos of a frustrated mother
The play Glass Managerie shows
(a) A swan song
(b) Realities of life
(c) War-torn sensibilities
(d) Fantasies of a young mother
Question’s Answer: Fantasies of a
young mother
Laura in “The Glass Managerie” is
_____ .
(a) A healthy woman
(b) Crippled from childhood and is
hypersensitive
(c) A sick woman with happy
children
(d) A psychopath
Question’s Answer: Crippled from
childhood and is hypersensitive
Amanda’s future lies in
(a) Laura’s accepting the situation
(b) Laura’s forgetting her handicap
and overcoming it
(c) Secretarial job for Laura and
her getting a good husband
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Secretarial job
for Laura and her getting a good
husband
What happens when Tom brings
his friend Jim O’Connor for dinner
at home?
(a) Tom is scandalized by the
attitude of the two women
(b) Laura welcomes him
(c) Mother sees in him a good
husband but Laura is withdrawn
(d) Jim is shocked by the interest
shown in him
Question’s Answer: Mother sees in
him a good husband but Laura is
withdrawn
Question’s Answer: By Dreaming of
successful marriage for daughter
and a good job for the son
Jim suddenly withdraws and leaves
because
(a) He did not like Laura
(b) He was already engaged
(c) He is repulsed by the tenement
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: He was already
engaged

Laura is crippled and hyper- What happens to Laura after Jim’s

sensitive who is at home only in departure?
(a) The sordid reality of a (a) She hopes for a second chance
tenement with no future
(b) She decides to kill herself
(b) A dream world
(c) She decides to wait
(c) Her private world which is
(d) She is withdrawn and retreats
centred around a collection of
further in her world of glass
animal figures in a glass
managerie
(d) Prayers
Question’s Answer: She is
Question’s Answer: Her private withdrawn and retreats further in
world which is centred around a her world of glass managerie
collection of animal figures in a
glass
What occurs to Tom after Jim
leaves?
What response does Jim have for
(a) Amanda chastises him forcing
Laura?
his leaving home for ever
(a) He tells her she’s beautiful,
(b) Promises to work for someone
tells her she has confidence, and
else
kisses her.
(c) Denies that he had invited Jim
(b) Looks at her casually
for laura
(c) He pays no attention
(d) He goes out to bring him back
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Amanda
Question’s Answer: He tells her chastises him forcing his leaving
she’s beautiful, tells her she has home for ever
confidence, and kisses her.

Which Tennessee Williams play

How Amanda tries to overcome her won the Pulitzer Prize?
physical situation?
(a) A Streetcar Named Desire
(a) By Dreaming of successful
(b) The Glass Managerie
marriage for daughter and a good
job for the son (c) You Touched Me
(b) By Fantasising for happy times (d) The Eccentricities of a
Nightingale
(c) By Hoping for the return of her
husband Question’s Answer: A Streetcar
Named Desire
(d) By Accepting the deplorable life
of a tenement dweller
What happens to Blanche when she (d) Stella
is betrayed by Stanley, Mitch and
Question’s Answer: Stanley
Stella?
(a) She kills herself
According to ______, “I have
(b) She breaks down
always depended on the kindness
(c) She runs away of strangers”?
(d) She accepts that she is of (a) Mitch
unsound mind and leaves with the
(b) Blanche
doctor
(c) Stella
Question’s Answer: She accepts
that she is of unsound mind and (d) Stanley
leaves with the doctor
Question’s Answer: Blanche

Who is frightened by the contrasts

Why does Stella, returning from
between the illustrious past and
the hospital after confinement, not
the impoverished present?
believe the story of incestuous
(a) Blanche assault on Blanche?
(b) Mitch (a) She believes it to be one of her
fantasies
(c) Stanley
(b) She does not trust Blanche
(d) Stella
(c) She is happy that Blanche has
Question’s Answer: Blanche
been assaulted
(d) None of A, B, and C
Who reacts against the crude
Question’s Answer: She believes it
humour and animal maleness of
to be one of her fantasies
Stanley Kowalski?
(a) Stella
Why Stanley and Stella are happy
(b) Mitch
with each other?
(c) Blanche
(a) Stanley and Stella are cast in
(d) The doctor the same mould and enjoy a life of
lust and sensuality
Question’s Answer: Blanche
(b) Stella accepts the lusty
crudeness of her husband
Who considers the life of Stanley
(c) Stella refuses to reject the
and Stella as aimless as the
advances of her crude husband
‘streetcar named desire’ shuttling
through the (d) None of A, B, and C
narrow streets? Question’s Answer: Stanley and
Stella are cast in the same mould
(a) Stella
and enjoy a life of lust and
(b) Mitch sensuality
(c) Blanche
(d) Stanley Why does Stanley react against the
refinement and good taste of
Question’s Answer: Blanche
Blanche?
(a) Because She is mad
Who calls Blanche a
(b) Because She is too good
nymphomaniac?
(c) Because She is unrealistic
(a) Mitch
(d) Because She lacks the essential
(b) Stanley
feminine attractiveness
(c) The doctor
Question’s Answer: Because She is (a) Tells untruthful stories
unrealistic
(b) Dances and attracts him
(c) Locks away the liquor
Why did the relationship between
(d) None of A, B, and C
Blanche and Mitch end?
Question’s Answer: Locks away the
(a) Blanche is lonely and sad
liquor
(b) Blanche has a superiority
complex
Who among American playwrights
(c) Mitch is like Stanley, unreliable
is best described as a
(d) Stanley tells a lie about representative of the theatre of the
Blanche being a nymphomaniac Absurd?
Question’s Answer: Stanley tells a (a) Tennessee Williams
lie about Blanche being a
(b) Eugene O’Neill
nymphomaniac
(c) Robert Sherwood
(d) Edward Albee
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is drama
which deals with Question’s Answer: Edward Albee
(a) Fight for the favour of a woman
(b) A farming family’s drama What Williams wanted to show
about life?
(c) Struggle for control of the
family plantation (a) Life is a tale told by an idiot
signifying nothing
(d) None of A, B, and C
(b) Life lies in full involvement with
Question’s Answer: Struggle for
it rather than shrinking from it
control of the family plantatio
(c) Life is beautiful, admire it
(d) Life is idealistic, worship it
What is the role of Maggie in The
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Question’s Answer: Life lies in full
involvement with it rather than
(a) She is like Mac
shrinking from it
(b) Central for she is the
passionate, vital cat who wants to
grab the plantation What characteristics come closest
to describing Edward Albee?
(c) She does not know what she
wants (a) Experiments with the idea of
American dream
(d) None of A, B, and C
(b) Writes musical opera
Question’s Answer: Central for she
is the passionate, vital cat who (c) Mingles the realistic with
wants to grab the plantation fantasy
(d) None of A, B, and C
What are the failings of Brick? Question’s Answer: Mingles the
realistic with fantasy
(a) Loves alcohol
(b) Being an ex-football héro
In Albee’s plays one finds
(c) Failure to become a father
(a) Spiritual sterility leading to
(d) Complacent
exposition of a deep feeling of the
Question’s Answer: Failure to tragedy of alienation
become a father
(b) A sense of doom
(c) Failure of family
What did Maggie do to rekindle
(d) None of A, B, and C
Brick’s desire for her?
Question’s Answer: Spiritual The American Dream in its
sterility leading to exposition of a treatment can be described as
deep feeling of the tragedy of
(a) Funny
alienation
(b) Pathetic
(c) Shattered dream
The author of the drama of
alienation in the U.S is _______. (d) Grotesque
(a) Edward Albee Question’s Answer: Grotesque
(b) Tennessee Williams
(c) Robert Sherwood What does The Zoo Story aim at
presenting?
(d) None of A, B, and C
(a) Alienation
Question’s Answer: Edward Albee
(b) A savage fantasy
(c) A satire on modern American
In which play of Albee a
life
homosexual youth kills an
unsuspecting innocent stranger? (d) Hypocrisy of American life
(a) The Death of Bessie Smith Question’s Answer: A savage
fantasy
(b) is Affraid of Virginia Woolf?
(c) The Sandbox The Zoo
StoryWho The Death of Bessie Smith is a
short play about
Question’s Answer: Who is Affraid
of Virginia Woolf? (a) The nonsense of American
being one people
(b) Conflict between White and
Why does the young man kill the
Negro Americans
innocent stranger?
(c) Racial discrimination
(a) For he neither likes the dream
life nor the world of reality (d) Savagery in American society
(b) For he is frustrated Question’s Answer: Conflict
between White and Negro
(c) For he got a kick out of the
Americans
outrageous act
(d) For he wished to perform a
fertility rite Is the American dream a central
idea in Edward Albee’s plays?
Question’s Answer: For he neither
Which of these describe his theme
likes the dream life nor the world
best?
of reality
(a) A vague superiority complex
(b) Failure of consumer society
The young man kills the innocent
stranger in the central park (c) Cold-war considerations
because
(d) Alienation
(a) He just wished to be funny
Question’s Answer: Alienation
(b) He wanted to inflict injury on
someone
The professor and his wife create a
(c) He wished to overcome his own
son in their minds to
sexual perversion and inadequacy
(a) A fantasy to make them happy,
(d) It is thrilling
so strong that it appears realistic
Question’s Answer: He wished to
(b) Playing a game
overcome his own sexual
perversion and inadequacy (c) Be happy
(d) Be funny
Question’s Answer: A fantasy to
make them happy, so strong that it
What happens in Who is Afraid of
appears realistic
Virginia Woolf?
(a) Comic release
Who is the author of the, There
(b) The old couple are joined by an
Shall be No Night?
instructor to make them give-up
(a) Edward Albee their pretensions
(b) Eugene O’Neill (c) A fantasy
(c) Robert Sherwood (d) There is a verbal articulation of
their frustration
(d) Arthur Miller
Question’s Answer: There is a
Question’s Answer: Robert
verbal articulation of their
Sherwood
frustration

Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Is

Albee’s
(a) Three-act play
(b) Five-act play
(c) One-act play
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three-act play
The parents kill their adopted son
because
(a) He will never become what
they think to be perfect
youngman,American dream
youngman
(b) He is sick
(c) He is not racially up to their
expectations
(d) They refuse to be his Mummy
and Daddy
Question’s Answer: He will never
become what they think to be
perfect youngman,American dream
youngman
The verbal torturing of each other
in Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(a) To overcome the grimness of
their predicament
(b) A fantasy
(c) A fixation about a non-existent
son to sustain them
(d) Creating a world-order to
please themselves
Question’s Answer: A fixation
about a non-existent son to sustain
them
Robert Sherwood in Idiot’s Delight
shows ___ .
(a) A call for war
(b) A need for economic sharing of
world’s resources
(c) A plea for world peace
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A plea for
world peace

Arthur Miller in his plays shows ___

What describes the events of Who
.
is Afraid of Virginia Woolf best?
(a) War-time American social
(a) All-night dance and party
trauma
(b) All-night drinking bout of a
(b) A realistic account of the mid
middle-aged professor and his wife
20th century America
(c) A big party at the home of a
(c) A fusion of realism and
professor
symbolism
(d) A party at a young couple’s
(d) Military life
house in honour of the professor
Question’s Answer: A fusion of
Question’s Answer: All-night
realism and symbolism
drinking bout of a middle-aged
professor and his wife
What is the role of Ben in the
drama?
(a) He is Willy’s brother and a self-
made successful
(b) He is Willy’s brother
(c) Ben is important for sons to
make them return to American life
of challenge
(d) Nothing
Question’s Answer: He is Willy’s
brother and a self- made successful
Willy Loman stands for
(a) Failure
(b) Love
(c) Success
(d) Alcoholism
Question’s Answer: Failure
In Death of a Salesman the
salesman is faced with
(a) A new dawn
(b) War and economics of the war-
time world
(c) Social-economic changes
(d) Conflicting situation caused by
his own false values and American
value system
Question’s Answer: Conflicting
situation caused by his own false
values and American value system
Willy Loman sells
(a) Ormaments
(b) A dream
(c) Motor car
(d) Packed food
Question’s Answer: A dream
Sherwood in There Shall be No
Night deals with
(a) Economic depression in
America
(b) American invasion of North Pole
(c) Romantic dream
(d) Russian attack on Finland
Question’s Answer: Russian attack
on Finland
Biff and Happy, the sons of Willy
Loman, are not happy because
(a) They have no grit in them
(b) Refuses to accept reality
(c) The war-time America was
facing economic collapse
(d) He believes in false values and
cannot cope with failure of his sons
Question’s Answer: He believes in
false values and cannot cope with
failure of his sons
The sons depart, leaving the father
to deal with his own resentment,
which results in _______.
(a) He decides to commit suicide to
make insurance money available
for his sons
(b) He kills
(c) Cannot make up his mind
(d) Steals to provide for his
children
Question’s Answer: He decides to
commit suicide to make insurance
money available for his sons
Willy Loman was _____ for his
family.
(a) A stranger
(b) Nobody
(c) Burden
(d) A salesman who had nothing to
sell
Question’s Answer: Burden
According to ______ , “Willy was a
salesman …riding on a smile and a
shoe shine… Nobody dast blame
this man. A salesman is got to
dream, boy. It
comes with the territory”
(a) Biff
(b) Happy
(c) Howard Wagner
(d) Charley, a friend
Question’s Answer: Charley, a (b) Elizabeth
friend
(c) Parris
(d) Hale
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a
Question’s Answer: Hale
play about ____.
(a) Madness
Arthur Miller depicts definite
(b) Inhuman
aspects of American life which can
(c) McCarthyism be best described by
(d) War (a) New universal role
Question’s Answer: McCarthyism (b) Racial consciousness
(c) Problems and maladies of a
new nation
The real and inner theme of “The
Crucible”, a Play by Arthur Miller is (d) A sense of freedom
(a) Religious understanding Question’s Answer: Problems and
maladies of a new nation
(b) Socio-political issues
(c) The conscience of the people
According to ________ , “Clzeave
(d) Right wing politics which
to no faith, when faith brings
dominated America of 1950s.
blood”.
Question’s Answer: The conscience
(a) Proctor
of the people
(b) Hale
(c) Danforth
Why are two immigrants in trouble
in A View from the Bridge? (d) Elizabeth
(a) Inherent dislike for the Question’s Answer: Hale
immigrants
(b) They take away all the
What is the reaction of the family
available job causing distrust
on Willy’s death?
(c) The immigrants are not peasant
(a) Feeling of freedom
(d) Racial/natural discrimination
(b) Sorrow
Question’s Answer: They take away
(c) Mixed feeling
all the available job causing
distrust (d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Feeling of
freedom
Miller was a celebrity American
playwright and was married to
(a) Miss U.S. The Salem trial of which The
Crucible reminds was based on
(b) A theatre actress
(a) Religious discipline to which the
(c) A Hollywood actress
Salem community adhered to
(d) Marilyn Monroe
(b) Religious fervour
Question’s Answer: A theatre
(c) Americans’ fear of the
actress
wilderness and forests as the
abode of the devil
Who said? “Shall the dust praise (d) None of A, B, and C
him? Shall the worms declare his
Question’s Answer: Americans’ fear
truth? Go
of the wilderness and forests as the
to him, take his shame away!” abode of the devil
(a) Danfarth
A View from the Bridge is about
(a) Rivers and ravines of the
American continent
(b) Tears of aliens
(c) Illegal immigrants
(d) American landscape
Question’s Answer: Illegal
immigrants