Lost in Yonkers Quizzes

Lost in Yonkers Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the play?
Tennessee Williams

Noel Coward

Anton Chekhov

Neil Simon
2 What award did the play win?
Pulitzer

Oscar

Tony

Grammy
3 What year did it premiere?
1992

1988

1990

1978
4 Where did it premiere?
The Center for the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem

The Guthrie

The Richard Rodgers Theater

Steppenwolf
5 When did it premiere on Broadway?
1995

1989

1982

1991
6 In what year does the play take place?
1942

1945

1939

1991
7 Where does Grandma live?
Washington Heights

Queen

Yonkers

Brooklyn
8 Where was Neil Simon born?
The Bronx

Brooklyn

California

Yonkers
9 Which of the following is not a Neil Simon play?
Barefoot in the Park

Biloxi Blues

Wait Until Dark

The Odd Couple
10 In what month does the play begin?
August

April

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?
Ireland

Italy

Poland

Germany
13 How old is Jay?
17

12

14

15
14 How old is Arty?
13

17

20

11
15 What did Jay label his drawing of Grandma as a child?
The Wicked Witch

Frankenstein's Grandma

Sweet Granny

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

They flunked out of school

Their mother died

They were bullied at school
17 What kind of business does Grandma own?
A laundromat

A soda fountain and ice cream store

A bookstore

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

The soda fountain

The movies

The library
19 What holds Bella back?
She is blind

She's a lesbian

She is a depressive

She's mentally handicapped
20 Who played Bella on Broadway?
Mercedes Ruehl

Cher

Bernadette Peters

Joan Allen
21 What is wrong with Aunt Gert?
She has lung problems

She is deaf

She is mentally handicapped

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

He's a gangster

He's a professional athlete

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

Sing

Cry

Talk
24 How old is Bella?
30

35

25

45
25 Who starred in the movie that Bella saw?
Bette Davis

Clark Gable

Joan Crawford

Marilyn Monroe

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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