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Waiting for Lefty Study Guide

by Clifford Odets

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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