Long Day’s Journey Into Night Quizzes

Long Day's Journey Into Night Quiz 1

1 Eugene O'Neill was born the child of
wealthy London socialites

circus folk

an actor

investment bankers
2 While in his twenties, O'Neill had to be treated for
herpes

consumption

hepatitis

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

the Provincetown players

the Eugene O'Neill players

MGM
4 Eugene O'Neill is considered to be
the last great American playwright

the greatest British playwright of this century

the greatest American playwright of the 19th century

the first great American playwright
5 Long Day's Journey into Night could best be described as
an experiment in surrealist theatre

a short play

an experiment in extreme realism

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

a prostitute

an alcoholic

a morphine addict
7 Eugene's older brother was
a drunken whoremonger

a great writer

a great actor

a great poet
8 Eugene gave the play to his wife Carlotta on the occasion of
their 12th wedding anniversary

their first child's birth

his retirement

his death
9 Eugene O'Neill was the only American playwright to win
both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prize

the Van Deeken prize

the Pulitzer prize

the Nobel prize
10 Long Day's Journey into Night was performed
in 1956, three years after O'Neill's death

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

in 1920, at the start of O'Neill's ascent to fame

1916, before O'Neill was well known
11 The play takes place in
1415

1912

1950

1945
12 The play is set in
the family room of the Tyrones' summer home

a cheap Broadway hotel

the kitchen of the Tyrones' summer home

the Tyrone parents bedroom
13 Edmund is
the younger son

both the younger son and sick with tuberculosis

the older son

sick with tuberculosis
14 Jamie is
the older son

the uncle

the younger son

the dead middle son
15 Mary has a problem with
morphine

cocaine

opium

heroin
16 The Tyrones' ancestry is
German

Scottish

Irish

English
17 The family's religion is
Lutheranism

Catholicism

Methodist

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

flooding

rain

fog
19 James Tyrone is a(n)
businessman

investment banker

writer

actor
20 Jamie's female companions tend to be
whores

fresh-off-the-boat Irish girls

rich but snobby socialites

Broadway dancers
21 Edmund is going to have to go to
college

a sanatorium

New Zealand

an asylum
22 Mary's reaction to Edmund's illness could best be described as
denial

grief

happiness

rage
23 People in the family constantly criticize Tyrone for his
vanity

cocaine problem

miserliness

coldness
24 Who of the Tyrone men abuses alcohol?
Jamie Tyrone

James Tyrone

Edmund Tyrone

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

Ellen

Cathleen

Molly

Does the family in the play ever really talk?

Breakdown of communication is a very apparent theme in the play. We are forced to listen to the same arguments again and again because nothing ever gets resolved. The Tyrones fight, but often hide the most important feelings. There is a deep...

Asked by Lola B #575338

Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/9/2023 11:00 AM