Translations Quizzes

Translations Quiz 1

1 Who wrote the play?

Sarah Ruhl

John Patrick Shanley

Brian Friel

Martin McDonagh
2 When was the play written?

1990

1987

1980

1985
3 In which country does the play take place?

England

America

Scotland

Ireland
4 What is the name of the village in which the play takes place?

Baile Beag

Derry

Dublin

New Dunfry
5 What year was Brian Friel born?

1927

1930

1929

1937
6 In what month does the play take place?

March

August

May

October
7 In what year does the play take place?

1843

1833

1837

1855
8 Which of the following is a Brian Friel play?

Dancing at Lughnasa

Proof

The Pillowman

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
9 Where does the play take place?

On a boat

At a church

At a hedge-school

In a field
10 Who is Hugh's older son?

Doalty

Yolland

Owen

Manus
11 Who is Manus teaching at the beginning of the play?

Bridget

Doalty

Sarah

Jimmy
12 What is he teaching Sarah?

How to translate Latin

Basic math

How to speak

How to speak English
13 What is Jimmy's nickname?

The Infant Prodigy

Virgil's Drunk Cousin

The Oldest Man in Baile Beag

The Drunken Scholar
14 What is Jimmy reading in the first scene?

Sappho

Virgil

Homer

Catullus
15 How old is Jimmy?

In his 50s

In his 40s

In his 60s

In his 30s
16 What passage from Homer does Jimmy read to Manus?

The moment where Athene turns Ulysses into an old man

Ulysses and the Cyclops

Circe

The journey to the Underworld
17 Which woman from mythology does Jimmy not ask Manus to choose between?

Helen of Troy

Athene

Aphrodite

Artemis
18 Who would Jimmy choose?

Helen of Troy

Athene

Artemis

Aphrodite
19 What does Sarah get out from under a patch of straw?

A book

A necklace

A fiddle

Flowers
20 Who does Manus love?

Mary

Maire

Bridget

Jean
21 What is the one English word Jimmy knows?

Love

Breast

Always

Bosom
22 Who are the other students at the hedge-school?

Bernie and Mary

Doalty and Bridget

Siobhan and Liam

Bridget and Max
23 What prank has Doalty been playing on the English soldiers?

Collapsing their tents in the middle of the night

Stealing their maps

Moving their surveyor poles

Stealing their beer
24 Whose baby was christened that morning?

Sarah

Maire

Bridget

Nellie Ruadh
25 What does Jimmy suggest they grow instead of potatoes?

Asparagus

Lettuce

Tomatoes

Corn

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