The Seagull Quizzes

The Seagull Quiz 1

1 What is the first line of the play?
Why do you always wear black?

What are you wearing?

I wish they'd hurry up

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

Konstantin

Medvedenko

Masha
3 Why does Masha wear what she wears?
She's dressed for the theatre.

She's recently been widowed.

She's in mourning for her life.

She hates clothes.
4 Which character is in love with Masha?
Medvedenko

Nina

Sorin

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

Masha

Medvedenko

Trigorin
6 Which character takes snuff?
Konstantin

Arkadina

Nina

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

Raining

So close - it will be a storm

Sunny
8 Who keeps asking Masha to have her father's dog let loose?
Konstantin

Sorin

Arkadina

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

For a sleep

For a swim

To look for Nina
10 How does Konstantin think of his improvised stage?
A thrust space, revolutionising use of the audience.

No curtain, no wings, just space.

Curtain at the front, only an empty space beyond.

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

Konstantin

Her mother

Sorin
12 Who has written the play in act one?
Nina

Trigorin

Konstantin

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

Because she hates her son

Because she's from another tradition

Because she hates Nina
14 How old is Konstantin?
25

35

20

30
15 How old is Arkadina
35

28

50

43
16 Why does Konstantin hate Arkadina's idea of theatre?
The plays are too long

It's artifical, trite, and moralistic

He hates Trigorin's writing

It's cold in the theatre she acts in
17 What does Konstantin long for in his theatre?
A return to classical values

A better understanding of text

New forms of theatre

More physical theatre
18 What does Konstantin's passport say he is?
A Kiev shopkeeper

A Moscow train-guard

A writer

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

Gogol and Zola

Tolstoy and Zola

Turgenev and Gogol
20 What does Sorin keep singing in Act One?
Hoffman's Can-Can

Beethoven's Ode to Joy

Mahler's The Seagull

Schumann's Two Grenadiers
21 Why won't Nina's father let her come to see Konstantin and his family?
They don't like Arkadina

They're frightened she'll fall into the lake

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 wonderful

She hates them

They're boring

They're unoriginal
23 How old is Dorn?
55

65

45

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

Dorn

Arkadina

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

A giant seagull

Arkadina, unexpected

The moon and the lake