Waiting for Lefty Quizzes

Waiting for Lefty Quiz 1

1 What was the name of the repertory company Odets was a member of in the 1930s?
The Reds

The Methodists

The Left-Wingers

The Group Theatre
2 What political party did Odets join in 1934?
The Replubican Party

American Communist Party

Dramatists for Socialism

The Democratic Party
3 What directly inspired the plot for "Waiting for Lefty"?
A steel workers' strike in 1933

A blacksmiths' strike in 1932

A baseball players' strike in 1933

A taxi drivers' strike in 1934
4 Who was President of the U.S. at the time "Waiting for Lefty" was written?
Woodrow Wilson

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Bob Dole

Herbet Hoover
5 What was the name of the period of poverty in the U.S. following the stock market crash of 1929?
The Great Depression

Hard Times

The Repression

The Lean Years
6 What is the religion of the doctor who is fired from the hospital?
Judaism

Hinduism

Christianity

Atheism
7 What does Edna threaten to do to Joe?
Leave him for an ex-boyfriend

Kiss him

Kill him

Divorce him
8 For whom does Edna say Joe is working?
His company

Himself

No one

His kids
9 What does Fayette ask Miller to create in his laboratory?
Sleeping pills

Anthrax

Poisonous gas

An atomic bomb
10 What additional task does Fayette ask of Miller?
To give him some free samples

To spy on another chemist

To destroy the evidence

To murder another chemist
11 How does the man in the crowd know that Clayton is a labor spy?
They are cousins

He is also a spy

They are brothers

They are father and son
12 Whom does Florence tend to?
Irv

Her mother

Her daughter

Sid
13 Why is Joe and Edna's furniture taken away?
They stole it

They are being evicted

They have not paid for all of the installments

Their lease is up
14 What are the men striking for?
A pension

Higher wages

Health insurance

Newer taxis
15 What happened to Miller's brother?
He is a corporate chief

He died from inhaling poison gas

He died in WWI

He has disowned Miller
16 Who does Edna say is "putting ideas in my head a mile a minute"?
Agate

Joe's boss

Joe

Lefty
17 What part of the hospital does Dr. Benjamin work in?
The emergency room

The burn ward

The charity ward

The waiting room
18 Who replaces Dr. Benjamin?
The nephew of a Senator

Dr. Barnes

The son of the Governor

Miller
19 Where does Dr. Benjamin briefly contemplate working?
China

Brazil

Afghanistan

Russia
20 What document does Agate allude to when he calls out "WORKERS OF THE WORLD"?
The Bible

The Wealth of Nations

The Communist Manifesto

Theory of the Leisure Class
21 Who protects Fatt?
A gunman

No one

The taxi drivers

Joe
22 Who is the chairman of the labor union?
Sid

Joe

Lefty

Agate
23 When did unions first gain widespread use in the U.S.?
World War I

The Civil War

World War II

The Revolutionary War
24 What program did Franklin Roosevelt enact in 1933 that promoted unions?
Tennessee Valley Authority

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

National Industrial Recovery Act

Child Labor Laws
25 What was the name for Franklin Roosevelt's social and economic programs designed to combat the Great Depression?
The Progressions

Uh-Oh

The New Deal

The Great Society

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