A Dance of the Forests Quizzes

A Dance of the Forests Quiz 1

1 Who wrote A Dance of the Forests?

Ola Rotimi

Wole Soyinka

Osonya Tess Onwueme

Zulu Sofola
2 What country is the playwright from?

Nigeria

Spain

Ethiopia

South Africa
3 When was the play published?

1963

1978

1967

1955
4 Which of the following is not a Wole Soyinka play?

Kongi's Harvest

Woza Albert!

The Lion and the Jewel

Death and the King's Horseman
5 What event was the play written in celebration of?

The first national elections

The establishment of Hausa Kingdom

Shagari's election

Nigerian independence and decolonization
6 In what year did Nigeria become independent?

1960

1962

1965

1958
7 When did Soyinka win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1976

1986

1990

1980
8 Why was this play controversial?

It was read as being critical of Nigerian politics

It was seen as anti-American

Soyinka was writing about homosexuality in plain terms

It included a lot of sexually explicit material
9 Where does the play take place?

In a clearing in a forest

In a small village

In a vast desert

In an English university
10 What is the first image of the play?

Aroni casting a spell

Demoke pushing his apprentice out of the tree

The Dead Man and Dead Woman coming up out of the soil

Mata Kharibu marrying Madame Tortoise
11 What is the Dead Man wearing?

A warrior's outfit

Nothing

A tuxedo

A suit made of leaves
12 What is the condition of the woman?

She is pregnant

She is incredibly skinny

She is covered in blood

She is an angel
13 Who is the first mortal to enter?

Adenebi

Rola

Agboreko

Murete
14 Who was the Dead Man in his former life?

A Captain in Mata Kharibu's army

A messenger

A poet

A scribe
15 Who was the Dead Woman in her former life?

The queen

A warrior

His wife

A poet
16 Who was Rola in her former life?

Madame Tortoise

A singer

The captain's wife

A warrior
17 Who was Adenebi in his former life?

A slave-dealer

The head of the army

The messenger

The court historian
18 What is Demoke's profession?

Writer

Orator

Carver

Warrior
19 Who is the patron god of carvers?

Rola

Ogun

Murete

Eshuoro
20 Who was Demoke in his previous life?

Madame Tortoise's husband

The court poet

The court historian

A soldier
21 Who brought the spirit of the restless dead to the Gathering of the Tribes?

The Forest Head

Agboreko

Aroni

The Old Man
22 What name does Forest Head go by?

Obaneji

Murete

Eshuoro

Rola
23 What is Aroni's title?

The Hunter of Humans

The Brave One

The Lame One

The Spirit of Love
24 What are the mortals' responses to the Dead Man and Dead Woman?

They are frightened and put off by them

They are delighted to see them

They are angry that they have to interact with them

They are indifferent and unfazed
25 Who says "the world is big but the dead are bigger"?

Adenebi

The Dead Woman

The Forest Head

The Dead Man

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