DRAM Final Plays
The title of FENCES can stand for:
Homeruns Family Protection A building project
Samuel Beckett lived and worked in Paris, writing in French but was born and raised in this country?
Ireland
"Does it make any difference? That I might be one thing deep within, no matter how wrong or ugly that thing is, so long as I have fought, with everything I have, to kill it?"
Joe Pitt
In ANGELS IN AMERICA who is Hannah?
Joe's mother
In ANGELS IN AMERICA, Roy offers Joe a job at the:
Justice department
In FENCES, Troy receives the distinction of becoming the first:
Black driver of a city garbage truck
In WAITING FOR GODOT, the name "Godot" is derived from:
D. all of the above, or perhaps none (since Beckett refused to explain his work).
The "Brechtian" influences in ANGELS IN AMERICA are found in all of the following except:
D. the play referencing several continents
"A week later. Mutual dream scene...."
angels in america
Which of the following would NOT be desired in a production of ANGELS IN AMERICA as envisioned by Tony Kushner in his stage directions?
blackouts between scenes
Joe refers to his wife as
buddy
How many different characters are named Prior Walter in ANGELS?
3
In FENCES, Troy has how many children by the end of the play?
3
In ANGELS IN AMERICA, Roy insists that his illness is liver cancer, but he really has:
AIDS
Which of the following is not characteristic of the "Well-Made Play?"
An unresolved ending
What "visions" did Prior Walter have in the film we saw?
Ancestors in his bedroom
"An abandoned lot in the South Bronx. A homeless woman is standing near an oil drum in which a fire is burning. Snowfall. Trash around."
Angels in America
"He begins to wipe makeup off with his hands, smearing it around. A large gray feather falls from up above."
Angels in America
The last days of October. Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz alone onstage with a small coffin. It is a rough pine box with two wooden pegs... holding the lid in place."
Angels in America
Which plays from the semester probably use double casting?
Angels in America
To where does Harper begin to plan a trip with Mr. Lies?
Antarctica
Where does Harper see the Eskimo?
Antarctica
This author says that his writing "is rooted to a large extent in music, specifically the blues."
August Wilson
This playwright has written a series of plays each set in a different decade of the 20th c.
August wilson
"Habit is a great deadener." Who said this?
Beckett
Which is the correct pairing of roles played by the same actor in ANGELS?
Belize / Mr. Lies
What is Troy's response to Cory's question about Troy "liking" him?
"What law is there say I got to like you?"
When Rose takes in Raynell, she tells Troy:
"You a womanless man"
The phrase associated with Troy throughout the play, FENCES, is:
"You've got to take the crookeds with the straights."
Which is the correct order of Cory's Three Strikes in FENCES?
1) He gets kicked off the football team 2) He protects Rose 3) He defends himself with a bat
Who is not a Maxson?
Bono
Where is Hannah trying to go when she questions the Bag Lady with the soup in ANGELS IN AMERICA?
Brooklyn
In WAITING FOR GODOT, Estragon and Vladimir say they've been told to wait:
By the tree
How does the Angel appear to Prior?
Crashing through his bedroom ceiling to "float above the bed"
According to Adamson, the effect of the opening dialogue of Fences is to:
Establish Wilson's denial of the "politically correct"
Which American historical figure appears in Roy's home?
Ethel Rosenberg
Connect the correct religious references with the play in which they appear:
FENCES - (3) character's belief that he is an Archangel ANGELS IN AMERICA - (2) struggles with being a Mormon
Bertolt Brecht tried to be very clear in his theoretical writing about what plays should be like.
False
Samuel Beckett has been very clear in his explications on his plays so that his meanings are never in doubt.
False
Wilson decried the use of music in his plays. He thought it distracted from the message he was trying to convey.
False
Who attempts to open the gates of Heaven at the end of FENCES?
Gabe
Connect the character with the correct disease or medical condition:
Gabe - Brain damage Harper - Valium addiction
What is the last line in FENCES?
Gabe: "That's the way that go!"
"Snow! Ice! Mountains of ice! Where am I?"
Harper
What irony accompanies Troy's victory on driving a sanitation truck?
He has no driver's license
Why can't Gabe blow his "trumpet" at the end of Fences?
He has no mouthpiece
"... unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished grave still abode of stone in a word I resume alas alas ..."
Lucky
What religious denomination do Joe and Harper belong to?
Mormonism
The overwhelming majority of August Wilson's plays are set in his native
Pittsburg
In the opening scene of WAITING FOR GODOT, Estragon is struggling to:
Remove his boot
In FENCES who does NOT sing "Old Blue"
Rose
Who does Bono refer to when he says, "Some people build fences to keep people out...and others to keep people in."?
Rose
Connect the prop, costume, or set piece with the correct character:
Rose - (3) clothes line Roy - (2) phone Leonard - (1) manuscript Molly - (4) cat Cory - (5) bat Leo - (4) bike
Connect the correct Fence image with the character:
Rose - (4) Jesus Troy - (3) Homerun Lyons - (2) Jail/Jazz Gabe - Selling fruit/trumpet
"I been standing with you! I been right here with you... I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes?"
Rose in FENCES
Where is the house located that Hannah is trying to sell in ANGELS?
Salt Lake City
In FENCES, Troy is employed as a
Sanitation worker
Verfremdungseffekt refers to
The "alienation effect" that Brecht sought to establish in his audience
Why does Cory come home in the last scene of FENCES?
To NOT go to his father's funeral
Which is a true statement regarding the setting of the scenes in FENCES?
They all happen on the weekendThey all happen in the Maxson's yard
In the film version of Angels in America, which we saw in class, how did the two older Prior's disappear?
They went up in flames
An example of one generation doing better than the previous is
Troy doesn't hit Cory
"Cause I ain't worried about Death. I done seen him. I done wrestled with him.
Troy in Fences
Which action is a thematic example of a "fence" in FENCES?
Troy prevents Cory from playing college football
According to Martin Esslin (as described in your introduction), Beckett's plays reveal a philosophical kinship with the French existential philosophers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
True
What University is recruiting Cory to play football?
UNC?
"Tell him... tell him you saw me and that... that you saw me. You're sure you saw me, you won't come and tell me tomorrow that you never saw me!"
Vladimir in WAITING FOR GODOT
Why does Vladimir wake Estragon from his nap?
Vladimir is lonely
"One thing AFTER another, not one thing OUT of another." This statement references which plot structure?
episodic
"He carries an old trumpet tied around his waist and believes with every fiber of his being that he is the Archangel Gabriel."
fences
"It is Friday night, payday, and the one night of the week the two men engage in a ritual of talk and drink."
fences
"Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens..."
fences
In WAITING FOR GODOT, to escape boredom, Vladimir and Estragon consider:
hanging themselves
What does Gabriel do at Troy's funeral at the end of FENCES?
he dances and howls to open the gates of heaven for Troy.
Where do Prior and Harper meet each other?
in Prior's dream and Harper's hallucination
In FENCES, near the end of the play, it is implied that Troy's son, Cory, begins to forgive his father, by doing this:
joining his sister, Raynell, in singing Troy's song about his dog, Blue
In ANGELS IN AMERICA, what is Joe's occupation?
lawyer
In what time period of American history does ANGELS IN AMERICA take place?
the 1980s
In FENCES, how was Troy's brother, Gabriel, injured?
wound sustained in World War II
