Long Day’s Journey Into Night Quizzes

Long Day's Journey Into Night Quiz 1

By Eddie Borey · Last reviewed August 05, 2001

1 Eugene O'Neill was born the child of

investment bankers

wealthy London socialites

an actor

circus folk
2 While in his twenties, O'Neill had to be treated for

herpes

hepatitis

syphilis

consumption
3 In 1916, O'Neill chanced on a career-starting bit of luck when he met the founders of

Seattle

the Eugene O'Neill players

MGM

the Provincetown players
4 Eugene O'Neill is considered to be

the first great American playwright

the greatest British playwright of this century

the greatest American playwright of the 19th century

the last great American playwright
5 Long Day's Journey into Night could best be described as

a short play

an experiment in surrealist theatre

an experiment in extreme realism

a deeply autobiographical work
6 Eugene O'Neill's mother was

an alcoholic

a morphine addict

a prostitute

an actress
7 Eugene's older brother was

a great poet

a drunken whoremonger

a great actor

a great writer
8 Eugene gave the play to his wife Carlotta on the occasion of

their first child's birth

his retirement

his death

their 12th wedding anniversary
9 Eugene O'Neill was the only American playwright to win

the Pulitzer prize

both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prize

the Nobel prize

the Van Deeken prize
10 Long Day's Journey into Night was performed

in 1953, in the last year of O'Neill's life

1916, before O'Neill was well known

in 1956, three years after O'Neill's death

in 1920, at the start of O'Neill's ascent to fame
11 The play takes place in

1912

1945

1950

1415
12 The play is set in

a cheap Broadway hotel

the kitchen of the Tyrones' summer home

the family room of the Tyrones' summer home

the Tyrone parents bedroom
13 Edmund is

the older son

the younger son

sick with tuberculosis

both the younger son and sick with tuberculosis
14 Jamie is

the dead middle son

the uncle

the younger son

the older son
15 Mary has a problem with

morphine

heroin

opium

cocaine
16 The Tyrones' ancestry is

Scottish

German

English

Irish
17 The family's religion is

Lutheranism

Methodist

Catholicism

Anglicanism
18 The dominant night time weather near the Tyrone house is

rain

fog

clear skies

flooding
19 James Tyrone is a(n)

actor

investment banker

businessman

writer
20 Jamie's female companions tend to be

rich but snobby socialites

fresh-off-the-boat Irish girls

Broadway dancers

whores
21 Edmund is going to have to go to

an asylum

a sanatorium

college

New Zealand
22 Mary's reaction to Edmund's illness could best be described as

grief

happiness

rage

denial
23 People in the family constantly criticize Tyrone for his

vanity

cocaine problem

coldness

miserliness
24 Who of the Tyrone men abuses alcohol?

James Tyrone

Jamie Tyrone

Edmund Tyrone

All of the above
25 The name of the second servant is

Molly

Ellen

Harriet

Cathleen

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