Lost in Yonkers Quizzes

Lost in Yonkers Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the play?
Noel Coward

Neil Simon

Tennessee Williams

Anton Chekhov
2 What award did the play win?
Pulitzer

Grammy

Oscar

Tony
3 What year did it premiere?
1988

1992

1978

1990
4 Where did it premiere?
The Center for the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem

The Richard Rodgers Theater

Steppenwolf

The Guthrie
5 When did it premiere on Broadway?
1982

1991

1989

1995
6 In what year does the play take place?
1939

1991

1942

1945
7 Where does Grandma live?
Washington Heights

Brooklyn

Yonkers

Queen
8 Where was Neil Simon born?
Yonkers

California

The Bronx

Brooklyn
9 Which of the following is not a Neil Simon play?
Wait Until Dark

The Odd Couple

Biloxi Blues

Barefoot in the Park
10 In what month does the play begin?
April

August

January

October
11 What are Jay and Arty's impression of their grandmother?
That she is cold but very smart

That she has no memory of her earlier life

That she is sweet and kindhearted

That she is mean and abusive
12 Where was Grandma born?
Germany

Ireland

Italy

Poland
13 How old is Jay?
12

14

17

15
14 How old is Arty?
13

17

11

20
15 What did Jay label his drawing of Grandma as a child?
The Wicked Witch

Sweet Granny

Frankenstein's Grandma

The Queen of the World
16 What trauma have the boys recently gone through?
Their mother died

They were bullied at school

They flunked out of school

Their father died
17 What kind of business does Grandma own?
A laundromat

A bookstore

A soda fountain and ice cream store

A German restaurant
18 Where does Aunt Bella work?
The movies

The library

The soda fountain

The gym
19 What holds Bella back?
She's a lesbian

She's mentally handicapped

She is a depressive

She is blind
20 Who played Bella on Broadway?
Joan Allen

Mercedes Ruehl

Cher

Bernadette Peters
21 What is wrong with Aunt Gert?
She is mentally handicapped

She has lung problems

She is deaf

She has cancer
22 What does Uncle Louie do?
He's a professional athlete

He's a mailman

He's a gangster

He's a composer
23 What didn't Grandma let her kids do when they were little?
Laugh

Sing

Talk

Cry
24 How old is Bella?
45

30

25

35
25 Who starred in the movie that Bella saw?
Bette Davis

Joan Crawford

Marilyn Monroe

Clark Gable

I recall that Louie tells her to forget about Johnny and grandma doesn't approve.

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Answered by Aslan on 4/20/2021 8:18 PM

The boys joke about selling Grandma's hair to the army to use as barbed wire, they joke about the fact that someone "dropped a horse" on Grandma and she still hasn't gotten over it. In Lost in Yonkers, laughter is a medicine, a respite from the...

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Major Characters

Arty and Jay are the main characters in Part I.

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Lost in Yonkers

by Neil Simon

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