Restoration to Modern Drama MCQs 2026

William Congreve's The Way of the World is a classic example of

1. ARestoration comedy of manners✓
2. BElizabethan revenge tragedy✓
3. CJacobean masque✓
4. DVictorian melodrama✓

The central couple in The Way of the World are

1. AHamlet and Ophelia✓
2. BRomeo and Juliet✓
3. CWilly and Linda Loman✓
4. DMirabell and Millamant✓

Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World is chiefly

1. Aa sea captain in Ibsen✓
2. BBeckett's tramp Vladimir✓
3. CShaw's phonetics professor✓
4. Da wealthy widow whom Mirabell must deceive to secure Millamant✓

Restoration comedy of manners typically features

1. Ablank verse epic battles only✓
2. BGreek chorus lamentation✓
3. Cwitty repartee, marriage plots and satire of upper-class behaviour✓
4. Dnaturalistic kitchen-sink realism only✓

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion derives its title from

1. Aa Greek sea nymph only✓
2. Bthe myth of a sculptor who falls in love with his creation✓
3. Ca Roman emperor's banquet✓
4. Da Norse saga of Thor✓

Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion is a specialist in

1. Amarine biology✓
2. Bphonetics✓
3. Cmedieval history✓
4. Dabstract painting✓

Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion begins as a

1. ANorwegian housewife✓
2. BAmerican salesman's wife✓
3. CParisian courtesan✓
4. DCockney flower seller in London✓

Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion is

1. AEliza's father's creditor only✓
2. Ba gentleman phonetician who bets against Higgins✓
3. Ca Dublin theatre manager✓
4. DGodot's messenger boy✓

Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion is notable for

1. Ahis comic moralizing about middle-class morality and "undeserving" charity✓
2. Bleading the French Revolution✓
3. Csailing to the moon✓
4. Dmurdering his brother✓

The original staged ending of Pygmalion differs from the film My Fair Lady because Shaw insists

1. AEliza marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill, not Higgins✓
2. BHiggins joins the clergy✓
3. CEliza returns to selling flowers silently✓
4. DPickering marries Higgins✓

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is classified as

1. ARestoration comedy✓
2. BElizabethan history play✓
3. CVictorian problem play only✓
4. DTheatre of the Absurd✓

Waiting for Godot is set

1. Aon a country road with a single tree✓
2. Bin a Norwegian doll's house✓
3. Con Willy Loman's Brooklyn stage✓
4. Din a London drawing room only✓

Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot are often called

1. AMirabell and Millamant✓
2. BBrick and Maggie✓
3. CDidi and Gogo✓
4. DBiff and Happy✓

The character Godot in Beckett's play

1. Adelivers a long final soliloquy✓
2. Bnever appears on stage✓
3. Cmarries Pozzo✓
4. Dreveals he is Vladimir's father✓

Pozzo and Lucky in Waiting for Godot arrive with

1. Aa rope linking master and servant✓
2. Ba sales sample case✓
3. Ca phonograph and wager✓
4. Da doll's house deed✓

Lucky's "thinking" speech in Waiting for Godot is

1. Aa sonnet in perfect rhyme✓
2. Ba silent mime only✓
3. Ca torrent of fragmented academic jargon✓
4. Da prayer in Latin only✓

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker is an example of

1. ARestoration heroic drama✓
2. Bthe comedy of menace✓
3. CGreek satyr play✓
4. Dmusical comedy✓

The Caretaker is set mainly in

1. Aa Norwegian fjord town✓
2. Ba cluttered room in a West London house✓
3. Ca Dublin abbey✓
4. Dan American highway✓

Davies in The Caretaker is

1. Aa phonetics professor✓
2. Ba sea captain's wife✓
3. Ca Greek herald✓
4. Dan itinerant tramp taken in by Aston✓

Aston in The Caretaker is characterized by

1. Awinning a duchess wager✓
2. Bwaiting for Godot✓
3. Ca damaged mind and a project to build a shed✓
4. Dselling rubber hose✓

Mick in The Caretaker is Aston's

1. Abrother who alternately threatens and offers Davies the caretaker post✓
2. Bfather in Ibsen✓
3. Csalesman son Biff✓
4. DFrench translator✓

Pinter's dialogue is famous for

1. Arhymed heroic couplets only✓
2. Bpauses and silences that carry dramatic weight✓
3. Cchoric odes every act✓
4. Dprose without any subtext✓

Eugene O'Neill is associated with

1. ARestoration wit only✓
2. Babsurdist minimalism only✓
3. CVictorian verse drama only✓
4. DAmerican tragic realism and autobiographical depth✓

Long Day's Journey Into Night by O'Neill depicts

1. Athe Loman family's sales route✓
2. BMirabell's marriage plot✓
3. Cthe Tyrone family's addiction, illness and mutual blame✓
4. DHiggins's phonetics lab only✓

The Iceman Cometh by O'Neill centers on

1. Aa London caretaker trio✓
2. Bdrinkers in Harry Hope's saloon and their pipe dreams✓
3. CGodot's country road✓
4. Da doll's house foreclosure✓

Mourning Becomes Electra by O'Neill transposes

1. AAeschylus's Oresteia to post-Civil War New England✓
2. BHamlet to Manhattan salesmen✓
3. CPygmalion to Dublin✓
4. DThe Way of the World to Paris✓

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman dramatizes

1. Athe collapse of Willy Loman's American Dream✓
2. Ba Restoration marriage contract✓
3. Ca phonetic wager in Covent Garden✓
4. DBeckett's roadside tree✓

Willy Loman works for

1. ALady Wishfort's estate✓
2. BHarry Hope's saloon✓
3. Cthe Wagner Company as a travelling salesman✓
4. Dthe Helmer bank✓

Linda Loman's refrain to Willy includes

1. A"Godot will come tomorrow"✓
2. B"the child is father to the man"✓
3. C"attention must be paid"✓
4. D"beauty is truth"✓

Biff Loman's crisis in Death of a Salesman stems from

1. Awaiting for an absent Godot✓
2. Bdisillusionment with his father's false success ethic✓
3. Cbuilding Aston's shed✓
4. Dlearning Cockney phonetics✓

Happy Loman in the play is

1. AMirabell's valet✓
2. BWilly's younger son who chases shallow success and women✓
3. CLucky's master✓
4. DNora's doctor✓

Charley in Death of a Salesman is

1. AWilly's pragmatic neighbor who offers him a job✓
2. BEliza's suitor Freddy✓
3. CPozzo's servant✓
4. DKrogstad's creditor✓

Ben Loman appears to Willy as

1. Aa spectral embodiment of ruthless success✓
2. Ba phonetics judge✓
3. CLady Wishfort's lawyer✓
4. DDr Rank✓

The flute motif in Death of a Salesman evokes

1. ABeckett's bowler hats✓
2. BPinter's silence✓
3. CWilly's father the inventor and a lost pastoral America✓
4. DIbsen's tarantella✓

Henrik Ibsen is often called the father of

1. ARestoration comedy✓
2. BElizabethan sonnet sequences✓
3. CVictorian triple-decker novels only✓
4. Dmodern realistic drama✓

A Doll's House by Ibsen focuses on

1. ANora Helmer's awakening and departure from marriage✓
2. BWilly Loman's car crash✓
3. CDavies's caretaker job✓
4. DVladimir's hat routine✓

Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House calls Nora

1. Apet names such as skylark and squirrel✓
2. BLoman and Happy✓
3. CDidi and Gogo✓
4. DPickering and Higgins✓

Nora's secret in A Doll's House involves

1. Aa phonetics wager✓
2. Ba forged loan to save Torvald's health✓
3. Cselling rubber samples✓
4. Dwaiting for Godot✓

Krogstad in A Doll's House is

1. AWilly's brother Ben✓
2. BAston's builder mate✓
3. Cthe blackmailing clerk who once loved Kristine Linde✓
4. DCongreve's fop Witwoud✓

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen ends with Hedda

1. Asailing to America with Helmer✓
2. Bmarrying Higgins✓
3. Cshooting herself after burning Lovborg's manuscript✓
4. Dbecoming a caretaker✓

The Wild Duck by Ibsen explores

1. ARestoration marriage rakes✓
2. Bthe destructive idealism of Gregers Werle✓
3. Cabsurdist road waiting✓
4. Dsales commission charts✓

Ghosts by Ibsen controversially treats

1. ACockney vowel drills only✓
2. Bhereditary syphilis, euthanasia and religious hypocrisy✓
3. Ccaretaker shed plans only✓
4. DGodot's carrot✓

Peer Gynt by Ibsen was written in

1. ARestoration heroic couplets only✓
2. Bblank verse like Milton only✓
3. Cverse and draws on Norwegian folktale✓
4. Dprose sales dialogue only✓

The "well-made play" technique Ibsen adapts includes

1. Adance interludes only✓
2. Bno causality at all✓
3. Cexclusive use of soliloquy✓
4. Dcareful exposition, secrets and a decisive final door-slam or revelation✓

Shaw's preface to Pygmalion attacks

1. ANora's tarantella✓
2. BLoman's rubber hose✓
3. CPozzo's whip only✓
4. Dthe English spelling system and class prejudice tied to accent✓

In The Way of the World, the proviso scene satirizes

1. Amarriage contracts and female autonomy✓
2. BAmerican sales routes✓
3. Cabsurdist exile✓
4. DArctic shipwrecks✓

Congreve's Mirabell is contrasted with the fop

1. AHappy Loman✓
2. BLucky✓
3. CTorvald Helmer✓
4. DSir Wilfull Witwoud✓

Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot originally in

1. AOld Norse✓
2. BLatin hexameter✓
3. CFrench (En attendant Godot)✓
4. DMiddle English rhyme royal✓

Miller's essay "Tragedy and the Common Man" argues that

1. Aonly kings may be tragic heroes✓
2. Bcomedy excludes social critique✓
3. Cabsurdism replaces all tragedy✓
4. Dmodern tragedy can center on an ordinary person like Willy Loman✓

The Requiem scene in Death of a Salesman shows

1. ANora dancing tarantella✓
2. BEliza returning to flowers✓
3. CHedda playing piano✓
4. DLinda unable to understand why Willy chose death✓