As You Like It M. Butterfly Angels in America The Importance of Being Earnest Spring Awakening
100
Who is Rosalind?
This character dresses as a man to avoid capture from the Duke's men.
100
Who is Gallimard?
This character kills himself at the end of the play.
100
What is HIV? (Or, what is AIDS?)
In the 1980s, this disease was equivalent to a death sentence; Angels in America is, in part, about characters dealing with this illness.
100
What is earnestness?
This is the Victorian value synonymous with charity, nobility, and kindness.
100
Who is Moritz?
This character from Spring Awakening commits suicide.
200
What is the forest?
This space is set up as the opposite of the court; it encourages imagination and fantasy.
200
What is imperialism? (Or, what is colonialism?)
This term refers to the system of taking over of a weaker nation by a stronger nation, in which the stronger nation imposes its values and cultural traditions onto the weaker nation.
200
Who is Tony Kushner?
He is the author of Angels in America. (First and last name, please)
200
What is bunburying?
This is the word for make believe or play in the Importance of Being Earnest; it is used to describe Algernon's gallivanting.
200
What is agency?
This word means 'control' or 'power'; Wendla gains this when she decides to be different from her own mother.
300
What is soliloquy?
This is the name for an extended aside or monologue.
300
What is Madame Butterfly?
This is the opera that Hwang bases his play on; he also uses the themes present in this opera to explode racial stereotypes in his own play.
300
What is snow?
Belize is referring to this when he says to Louis, "Can you smell it?...Softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace."
300
What is Comedy of Manners?
This term is used to describe a text that satirizes the social and moral codes of a particular group of people.
300
What is the pastoral?
This utopian space is described in "The Song of Purple Summer" as one in which nature and imagination will be privileged.
400
What is iambic pentameter?
This is the type of verse construction that Shakespeare uses; it consists of 5 pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables.
400
What is "shame"?
The completion of this phrase: "What do you want? I have already given you my _______." (Written by Song to Gallimard)
400
What is "Threshold of Revelation"?
This phrase indicates that there are truly no limits to the imagination; it is used in a fantasy sequence featuring Harper and Prior.
400
Who is Miss Prism?
This is the person who misplaced Jack when he was a baby.
400
What is establishmentarianism?
This word describes the system of supporting and operating within social and institutional norms; it is represented by the adults of the play.
500
What is "stage"?
The completion of this phrase: "All the world's a _________, and all the men and women merely players."
500
What is the West and the "Orient" (or Asia)?
These two parts of the world that make up the stereotypical relationship Hwang explores in M. Butterfly.
500
Who is Roy Cohn?
He is the lawyer in Angels in America, based on a real person, who is diagnosed with AIDS but pretends to have cancer. (First and last name)
500
What is "spade"?
The completion of this phrase: "When I see a ___________, I call it a __________." (Said by Cecily to Gwendolen)
500
What is "Those You've Known"?
Moritz and Wendla sing this song to Melchior in order to prevent him from killing himself and to help him move on with his life.






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