A Taste of Honey Quizzes

A Taste of Honey Quiz 1

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1 Who wrote A Taste of Honey?

Shelagh Baker

Josephine Baker

Josephine Delaney

Shelagh Delaney
2 What form does A Taste of Honey take?

Short story

Poem

Play

Novel
3 In what country is A Taste of Honey set?

Canada

England

United States

France
4 In what city is A Taste of Honey set?

Manchester

Delhi

Sydney

London
5 How many acts are in A Taste of Honey?

Four

Two

One

Three
6 How many distinct scenes are in each act of A Taste of Honey?

Fourteen scenes total

Two scenes per act

Two scenes total

There are no scene divisions
7 What year was A Taste of Honey first performed?

1958

1938

2014

1999
8 How many on-stage characters does A Taste of Honey feature?

One

Five

Three

Two
9 Who is the play's protagonist?

Jo

Peter

Geoffrey

Helen
10 Who is the primary antagonist in A Taste of Honey?

Jo

Helen

Geoffrey

Peter
11 What event marks the opening of the play?

Jo gets into art school

Helen and Jo move into a new flat

Peter breaks up with Helen

Helen leaves Jo to go to the pub
12 According to Helen, what is her primary consideration when selecting a place to live?

If she can afford it

How much light it gets

Whether Jo will like it

Whether there is a school nearby
13 How old is Jo at the beginning of the play?

Seventeen

Sixteen

Twelve

Twenty
14 What props do Helen and Jo have in their hands when they first appear on stage?

Bottles of wine

Baggage

Dog leashes

Nothing, they left their last place taking nothing with them
15 How does Jo feel about the flat they are moving into?

She loves it

She thinks it just needs a little love

She doesn't like it

She refuses to move into it
16 How is Helen described in the stage directions?

A fancy lady

A lady of the night

A part-time hooker

A semi-whore
17 What does Helen continually complain about in the opening scene?

A cold that makes her nose run

Jo not helping find suitable lodgings

The flat is too big

The flat is too warm
18 What does Helen say the flat has a "lovely view of"?

The river

The croft

The gasworks

The cement plant
19 What feature discussed in the play distinguishes the flat as being in a lodging house?

There is a shared bathroom down the hall

The landlady is always barging in

There are no windows

The electricity shuts off constantly because everyone is sharing
20 What is Helen's first desire upon arriving at the new flat?

Having a drink

Meeting the neighbors

Unpacking

Opening the windows to air it out
21 When Jo says, "She'd lose her head if it was loose," it is an example of what literary device?

Foreshadowing

Simile

Metaphor

Situational irony
22 What does Helen drink in the opening scene?

Wine

Whisky

Water

Beer
23 How does Helen react when Jo says she doesn't want to drink alcohol?

Helen tries to get Jo to try it at least

Helen respects her daughter's boundaries

Helen says she knows she ought to quit herself

Helen weeps and knocks back more booze
24 What does Jo say she can smell from the new flat?

The gasworks

The cement plant

The sewage plant

The river
25 What socioeconomic class do Jo and Helen belong to?

Working

Middle

They live in a society that has done away with class distinctions

Upper

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