Resource Index
Question 80: Who among the following has written the play Angels in America?
Answer: 4. Tony Kushner
"Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" is a two-part play by Tony Kushner.(Asked in Exam)
It garnered numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Set in 1980s America, the play delves into the complexities of AIDS and homosexuality, utilising metaphors and symbolism to explore these themes. Supernatural characters, including angels and ghosts, add depth to the narrative.
With a diverse cast of characters, including both gay and straight couples in Manhattan, the play weaves multiple storylines that occasionally intersect. "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika" are the two separate parts that make up this thought-provoking and impactful theatrical experience.
Question 81: Which two of the following plays have been written by Edward Albee?
A. The Zoo Story
B. The Price
C. A Delicate Balance
D. Frances
E. Operation Sidewinder
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer: 3. A & C
Edward Albee wrote "The Zoo Story" (1959) and "A Delicate Balance" (1966).(Asked in Exam)
Edward Albee (1928-2016) was an American dramatist and theatrical producer best known for his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which displays slashing insight and witty dialogue in its gruesome portrayal of married life.
Edward Albee Plays
The Zoo Story (1959), The Sandbox (1960), The American Dream (1961), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966), Seascape (1975), Three Tall Women (1991), The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2000).
Sam Shepard Plays
Operation Sidewinder (1970), The Tooth of Crime (1972), Curse of the Starving Class (1977), Buried Child (1978), True West (1980), A Lie of the Mind (1985), Simpatico (1994). (He also featured in the 1982 film Frances).
Arthur Miller Plays
All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge (1955), After the Fall (1964), The Price (1968), Broken Glass (1994).
Question 82: Which of the following is NOT written by Margaret Atwood?
Answer: 2. The Stone Angel
"The Stone Angel" is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, not Margaret Atwood.(Asked in Exam) First published in 1964, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba.
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her extensive bibliography includes:
Atwood's Novels
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Cat's Eye (1988)
- The Robber Bride (1993)
- Alias Grace (1996)
- The Blind Assassin (2000)
- Oryx and Crake (2003)
- The Testaments (2019)
Atwood's Short Fiction
- Dancing Girls (1977)
- Murder in the Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Wilderness Tips (1991)
- Good Bones (1992)
- Moral Disorder (2006)
- Stone Mattress (2014)
- Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
Atwood's Poetry
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- Morning in the Burned House (1995)
- Dearly (2020)
Question 83: Who among the following is an Australian Aboriginal poet?
Answer: 2. Kath Walker
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, also called (until 1988) Kath Walker (1920-1993), was an Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist.(Asked in Exam)
She is considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. Her first volume of poetry, We Are Going (1964), is the first book by an Aboriginal woman to be published.
Judith Arundell Wright (1915-2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist, and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights, but she was not of Aboriginal descent herself.
Robert Frost and Maya Angelou are American poets (Frost is a white American, Angelou an African American) and are not part of the Australian cultural landscape.
Question 84: The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas is written by
Answer: 2. Umberto Eco
The nonfiction book titled "The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas" (1988) was authored by Umberto Eco.(Asked in Exam)
Umberto Eco was a prominent Italian figure known for his diverse talents as a scholar, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and social commentator. He gained immense fame for his 1980 novel "The Name of the Rose," a historical mystery weaving semiotics and biblical analysis, as well as his 1988 novel "Foucault's Pendulum."
He entered the University of Turin where he focused heavily on mediaeval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Under the guidance of Luigi Pareyson, Eco completed his thesis on the aesthetics of Aquinas, earning his Laurea degree in philosophy in 1954, which laid the groundwork for this later publication.
Active Recall Zone
Solidify your knowledge of American and World Literature (Q80-Q84):
- Which play by Tony Kushner won the Pulitzer Prize and explores the 1980s AIDS crisis?
(Angels in America) - Who wrote the Manawaka-based Canadian novel The Stone Angel?
(Margaret Laurence) - Who is widely recognized as the first modern-day Australian Aboriginal protest writer?
(Oodgeroo Noonuccal / Kath Walker) - Which Italian semiotician and novelist wrote The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas?
(Umberto Eco)
Frequently Asked Questions
What are some of the key plays written by Edward Albee?
Edward Albee, an iconic American dramatist, is best known for masterpieces such as The Zoo Story (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1991).
What are the two parts of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"?
The epic play is divided into two parts: Part One is titled "Millennium Approaches," and Part Two is titled "Perestroika."
