Long Day’s Journey Into Night Quizzes

Long Day's Journey Into Night Quiz 1

1 Eugene O'Neill was born the child of
circus folk

investment bankers

wealthy London socialites

an actor
2 While in his twenties, O'Neill had to be treated for
syphilis

herpes

hepatitis

consumption
3 In 1916, O'Neill chanced on a career-starting bit of luck when he met the founders of
the Provincetown players

MGM

Seattle

the Eugene O'Neill players
4 Eugene O'Neill is considered to be
the greatest American playwright of the 19th century

the first great American playwright

the last great American playwright

the greatest British playwright of this century
5 Long Day's Journey into Night could best be described as
an experiment in surrealist theatre

a short play

a deeply autobiographical work

an experiment in extreme realism
6 Eugene O'Neill's mother was
a prostitute

an actress

an alcoholic

a morphine addict
7 Eugene's older brother was
a great poet

a great writer

a great actor

a drunken whoremonger
8 Eugene gave the play to his wife Carlotta on the occasion of
their first child's birth

their 12th wedding anniversary

his death

his retirement
9 Eugene O'Neill was the only American playwright to win
both the Pulitzer prize and the Nobel prize

the Nobel prize

the Pulitzer prize

the Van Deeken prize
10 Long Day's Journey into Night was performed
in 1953, in the last year of O'Neill's life

in 1920, at the start of O'Neill's ascent to fame

in 1956, three years after O'Neill's death

1916, before O'Neill was well known
11 The play takes place in
1415

1950

1912

1945
12 The play is set in
the Tyrone parents bedroom

a cheap Broadway hotel

the kitchen of the Tyrones' summer home

the family room of the Tyrones' summer home
13 Edmund is
sick with tuberculosis

the younger son

the older son

both the younger son and sick with tuberculosis
14 Jamie is
the uncle

the dead middle son

the older son

the younger son
15 Mary has a problem with
opium

heroin

cocaine

morphine
16 The Tyrones' ancestry is
English

Irish

German

Scottish
17 The family's religion is
Anglicanism

Lutheranism

Catholicism

Methodist
18 The dominant night time weather near the Tyrone house is
rain

fog

clear skies

flooding
19 James Tyrone is a(n)
investment banker

actor

businessman

writer
20 Jamie's female companions tend to be
rich but snobby socialites

Broadway dancers

whores

fresh-off-the-boat Irish girls
21 Edmund is going to have to go to
New Zealand

an asylum

a sanatorium

college
22 Mary's reaction to Edmund's illness could best be described as
grief

rage

denial

happiness
23 People in the family constantly criticize Tyrone for his
coldness

miserliness

cocaine problem

vanity
24 Who of the Tyrone men abuses alcohol?
Jamie Tyrone

Edmund Tyrone

James Tyrone

All of the above
25 The name of the second servant is
Molly

Cathleen

Harriet

Ellen

d. The influence of bad friends

Although I do not agree with the phrase "bad" friends..... Mary largely blames Edmund for her addiction. She emphatically blames anyone but herself.

Anyway, I don't know what you're referring to. But I do know you...

Asked by Haley J #779162

Answered by jill d #170087 on 4/16/2025 7:24 PM

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Does the family in the play ever really talk?

Breakdown of communication is a very apparent theme in the play. We are forced to listen to the same arguments again and again because nothing ever gets resolved. The Tyrones fight, but often hide the most important feelings. There is a deep...

Asked by Lola B #575338

Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/9/2023 11:00 AM

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Long Day's Journey into Night.

Mary is addicted to morphine.

Asked by Zehra R #1101420

Answered by jill d #170087 on 6/9/2023 10:56 AM

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