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Waiting for Lefty Quiz 1

  • 1. What was the name of the repertory company Odets was a member of in the 1930s?
    •     The Group Theatre
    •     The Reds
    •     The Methodists
    •     The Left-Wingers

  • 2. What political party did Odets join in 1934?
    •     The Democratic Party
    •     The Replubican Party
    •     American Communist Party
    •     Dramatists for Socialism

  • 3. What directly inspired the plot for "Waiting for Lefty"?
    •     A baseball players' strike in 1933
    •     A steel workers' strike in 1933
    •     A blacksmiths' strike in 1932
    •     A taxi drivers' strike in 1934

  • 4. Who was President of the U.S. at the time "Waiting for Lefty" was written?
    •     Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    •     Herbet Hoover
    •     Bob Dole
    •     Woodrow Wilson

  • 5. What was the name of the period of poverty in the U.S. following the stock market crash of 1929?
    •     The Lean Years
    •     Hard Times
    •     The Great Depression
    •     The Repression

  • 6. What is the religion of the doctor who is fired from the hospital?
    •     Christianity
    •     Atheism
    •     Judaism
    •     Hinduism

  • 7. What does Edna threaten to do to Joe?
    •     Kill him
    •     Kiss him
    •     Divorce him
    •     Leave him for an ex-boyfriend

  • 8. For whom does Edna say Joe is working?
    •     Himself
    •     His kids
    •     His company
    •     No one

  • 9. What does Fayette ask Miller to create in his laboratory?
    •     An atomic bomb
    •     Poisonous gas
    •     Anthrax
    •     Sleeping pills

  • 10. What additional task does Fayette ask of Miller?
    •     To destroy the evidence
    •     To give him some free samples
    •     To spy on another chemist
    •     To murder another chemist

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