The Seagull Quizzes

The Seagull Quiz 1

1 What is the first line of the play?
What are you wearing?

I wish they'd hurry up

Why do you always wear black?

When does the play start?
2 Who always wears black?
Konstantin

Arkadina

Masha

Medvedenko
3 Why does Masha wear what she wears?
She's recently been widowed.

She's dressed for the theatre.

She hates clothes.

She's in mourning for her life.
4 Which character is in love with Masha?
Sorin

Konstantin

Nina

Medvedenko
5 Who is paid only 23 rubles a month?
Konstantin

Masha

Medvedenko

Trigorin
6 Which character takes snuff?
Masha

Nina

Arkadina

Konstantin
7 What is the weather like in the first act?
A very light breeze

Sunny

So close - it will be a storm

Raining
8 Who keeps asking Masha to have her father's dog let loose?
Sorin

Medvedenko

Konstantin

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

For a swim

For a sleep

To look for Nina
10 How does Konstantin think of his improvised stage?
Curtain at the front, only an empty space beyond.

No curtain, no wings, just space.

A thrust space, revolutionising use of the audience.

A darkened room, downstairs in Sorin's house.
11 Who does Nina live with?
Sorin

Her mother

Her father and stepmother

Konstantin
12 Who has written the play in act one?
Konstantin

Nina

Arkadina

Trigorin
13 Why does Konstantin think Arkadina hates his play?
Because she's jealous

Because she's from another tradition

Because she hates her son

Because she hates Nina
14 How old is Konstantin?
25

20

35

30
15 How old is Arkadina
28

35

43

50
16 Why does Konstantin hate Arkadina's idea of theatre?
The plays are too long

It's cold in the theatre she acts in

It's artifical, trite, and moralistic

He hates Trigorin's writing
17 What does Konstantin long for in his theatre?
A return to classical values

A better understanding of text

More physical theatre

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

A Kiev shopkeeper

A Moscow train-guard

A writer
19 Which two writers does Konstantin say Trigorin is inferior to?
Turgenev and Gogol

Tolstoy and Shakespeare

Tolstoy and Zola

Gogol 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 don't like Arkadina

They think she'll be too poorly dressed

They say they're all Bohemians

They're frightened she'll fall into the lake
22 What does Nina think of Trigorin's stories?
They're wonderful

She hates them

They're unoriginal

They're boring
23 How old is Dorn?
45

55

65

35
24 Who did all the women in th area used to fall in love with?
Dorn

Arkadina

Sorin

Trigorin
25 What is revealed when the curtain rises on Konstantin's play?
The moon and the lake

A giant seagull

Sorin's house

Arkadina, unexpected