The Seagull Quizzes

The Seagull Quiz 1

By Robert William · Edited by Soman Chainani · Last reviewed March 26, 2009

1 What is the first line of the play?

I wish they'd hurry up

When does the play start?

What are you wearing?

Why do you always wear black?
2 Who always wears black?

Konstantin

Medvedenko

Arkadina

Masha
3 Why does Masha wear what she wears?

She's in mourning for her life.

She hates clothes.

She's recently been widowed.

She's dressed for the theatre.
4 Which character is in love with Masha?

Medvedenko

Sorin

Nina

Konstantin
5 Who is paid only 23 rubles a month?

Masha

Medvedenko

Konstantin

Trigorin
6 Which character takes snuff?

Konstantin

Arkadina

Nina

Masha
7 What is the weather like in the first act?

So close - it will be a storm

Sunny

Raining

A very light breeze
8 Who keeps asking Masha to have her father's dog let loose?

Konstantin

Medvedenko

Sorin

Arkadina
9 Where does Yakov go, just before the play is due to start?

For a swim

For a sleep

To look for Nina

Shopping
10 How does Konstantin think of his improvised stage?

No curtain, no wings, just space.

Curtain at the front, only an empty space beyond.

A darkened room, downstairs in Sorin's house.

A thrust space, revolutionising use of the audience.
11 Who does Nina live with?

Her mother

Her father and stepmother

Sorin

Konstantin
12 Who has written the play in act one?

Konstantin

Trigorin

Nina

Arkadina
13 Why does Konstantin think Arkadina hates his play?

Because she's jealous

Because she hates Nina

Because she hates her son

Because she's from another tradition
14 How old is Konstantin?

25

30

35

20
15 How old is Arkadina

50

35

43

28
16 Why does Konstantin hate Arkadina's idea of theatre?

It's artifical, trite, and moralistic

The plays are too long

It's cold in the theatre she acts in

He hates Trigorin's writing
17 What does Konstantin long for in his theatre?

A better understanding of text

More physical theatre

A return to classical values

New forms of theatre
18 What does Konstantin's passport say he is?

A writer

A Kiev shopkeeper

A Moscow train-guard

An actor
19 Which two writers does Konstantin say Trigorin is inferior to?

Gogol and Zola

Tolstoy and Shakespeare

Turgenev and Gogol

Tolstoy and Zola
20 What does Sorin keep singing in Act One?

Mahler's The Seagull

Schumann's Two Grenadiers

Hoffman's Can-Can

Beethoven's Ode to Joy
21 Why won't Nina's father let her come to see Konstantin and his family?

They're frightened she'll fall into the lake

They don't like Arkadina

They say they're all Bohemians

They think she'll be too poorly dressed
22 What does Nina think of Trigorin's stories?

They're boring

They're unoriginal

She hates them

They're wonderful
23 How old is Dorn?

35

65

55

45
24 Who did all the women in th area used to fall in love with?

Trigorin

Dorn

Arkadina

Sorin
25 What is revealed when the curtain rises on Konstantin's play?

Sorin's house

Arkadina, unexpected

The moon and the lake

A giant seagull

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