Multiple Choice Quiz

Choose the best answer.


1	This playwright is NOT associated with theater of the absurd:
		A)	Albert Camus
		B)	Jean Paul Sartre
		C)	Peter Weiss
		D)	Samuel Beckett


2	____________________ wrote Waiting for Godot in 1957.
		A)	Albert Camus
		B)	Jean Paul Sartre
		C)	Peter Weiss
		D)	Samuel Beckett


3	One of the most famous documentary dramas, The Investigation, written by ___________________, dramatizes WWII Nazi war crimes.
		A)	Albert Camus
		B)	Jean Paul Sartre
		C)	Peter Weiss
		D)	Samuel Beckett


4	Richard Schechner coined the term "_______________" to describe theater that treats the entire theater space as a performance area.
		A)	existentialism
		B)	performance art
		C)	theater of the absurd
		D)	environmental theater


5	Martin Esslin is a theater critic who named the 1950s' revolutionary theater form "__________."
		A)	existentialism
		B)	performance art
		C)	theater of the absurd
		D)	environmental theater


6	The philosophy most clearly articulated by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus is known as "_____________."
		A)	existentialism
		B)	performance art
		C)	theater of the absurd
		D)	environmental theater


7	The 1943 production of "Oklahoma" brought this team together:
		A)	Rogers and Hart
		B)	Rogers and Hammerstein
		C)	Hammerstein and Kern
		D)	Lerner and Lowe


8	______________________ was the first black actor to play Othello.
		A)	William Brown
		B)	Ira Aldridge
		C)	James Hewlett
		D)	August Wilson


9	The 1927 musical "Show Boat" began a new chapter in American musical theater. The team who wrote this musical is:
		A)	Rogers and Hart
		B)	Rogers and Hammerstein
		C)	Hammerstein and Kern
		D)	Lerner and Lowe


10	This actor/playwright won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for "Buried Child":
		A)	David Mamet
		B)	Sam Shepard
		C)	Tony Kushner
		D)	Robert Wilson

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