GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of British Plays After 1925

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Example Question #41 : Contexts Of Plays

Which of the following is not a character in Waiting for Godot?

Possible Answers:

Pozzo

Vladimir

Molloy

Lucky

Estragon

Correct answer:

Molloy

Explanation:

Molloy is the title of a 1951 novel by Samuel Beckett, but it is not the name of a character in Waiting for Godot (1953).

Example Question #45 : Contexts Of Plays

What famous play do the protagonists of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead originally appear in?

Possible Answers:

A Streetcar Named Desire

Henry IV Part I

Death of a Salesman

Pygmalion

Hamlet

Correct answer:

Hamlet

Explanation:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603). Most of Stoppard’s play takes place “offstage” or behind the scenes of the actions in Hamlet, with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (two of Hamlet’s friends and courtiers) acting confused about what is happening onstage without them. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was first performed in 1966.

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949), George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913), and William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I (1600) were all used as alternate answer choices.

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