The Seagull Quizzes

The Seagull Quiz 1

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

I wish they'd hurry up

When does the play start?

What are you wearing?
2 Who always wears black?
Arkadina

Konstantin

Masha

Medvedenko
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?
Sorin

Nina

Medvedenko

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

Masha

Trigorin

Konstantin
6 Which character takes snuff?
Nina

Arkadina

Konstantin

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

So close - it will be a storm

A very light breeze

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

Sorin

Konstantin

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

For a swim

To look for Nina

For a sleep
10 How does Konstantin think of his improvised stage?
No curtain, no wings, just space.

A thrust space, revolutionising use of the audience.

A darkened room, downstairs in Sorin's house.

Curtain at the front, only an empty space beyond.
11 Who does Nina live with?
Her mother

Sorin

Konstantin

Her father and stepmother
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's from another tradition

Because she hates her son
14 How old is Konstantin?
20

35

25

30
15 How old is Arkadina
35

28

43

50
16 Why does Konstantin hate Arkadina's idea of theatre?
It's cold in the theatre she acts in

The plays are too long

It's artifical, trite, and moralistic

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

A better understanding of text

New forms of theatre

A return to classical values
18 What does Konstantin's passport say he is?
A Moscow train-guard

An actor

A writer

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

Tolstoy and Zola

Tolstoy and Shakespeare

Gogol and Zola
20 What does Sorin keep singing in Act One?
Beethoven's Ode to Joy

Mahler's The Seagull

Schumann's Two Grenadiers

Hoffman's Can-Can
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 think she'll be too poorly dressed

They say they're all Bohemians
22 What does Nina think of Trigorin's stories?
They're boring

They're unoriginal

They're wonderful

She hates them
23 How old is Dorn?
55

35

45

65
24 Who did all the women in th area used to fall in love with?
Trigorin

Sorin

Dorn

Arkadina
25 What is revealed when the curtain rises on Konstantin's play?
A giant seagull

Sorin's house

Arkadina, unexpected

The moon and the lake