Samuel Beckett MCQs

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1. : What is Samuel Beckett’s most famous play?



2. : Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in which year?



3. : What is the central theme of “Waiting for Godot”?



4. : In which language did Samuel Beckett write many of his major works?



5. : What nationality was Samuel Beckett?



6. : Who are the two main characters in “Waiting for Godot”?



7. : Samuel Beckett was a contemporary of which famous Irish writer?



8. : Which Beckett play features a man sitting on a mound talking continuously?



9. : What genre is most closely associated with Beckett’s work?



10. : What is the name of Beckett’s monologue that consists of a rapid stream of consciousness?



11. : Where was Samuel Beckett born?



12. : What role did Beckett play in World War II?



13. : What character in Beckett’s “Endgame” is blind and unable to stand?



14. : Which Beckett work was originally written in French and later translated into English by himself?



15. : Samuel Beckett died in which year?



16. : What was Samuel Beckett’s profession before becoming a full-time writer?



17. : What award did Beckett win in 1969?



18. : What is Beckett’s novel trilogy called?



19. : Which Beckett play is set in a single room with characters confined to ashbins?



20. : What university did Samuel Beckett attend?



21. : Which writer had a significant influence on Beckett’s early work?



22. : In “Krapp’s Last Tape”, what object does Krapp use to listen to his memories?



23. : What best describes Beckett’s later style?



24. : What is the meaning of “Godot” in “Waiting for Godot”?



25. : Which play features three characters in urns speaking in fragments?



26. : What language did Beckett often use to distance himself emotionally from his work?



27. : In what country did Beckett spend most of his adult life?



28. : Beckett’s writing is known for portraying what kind of world?



29. : Which of these is a prose work by Samuel Beckett?



30. : Which Samuel Beckett play was first performed in 1953?



31. : Who directed the original French production of “Waiting for Godot”?



32. : Which work begins with the line: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new”?



33. : What physical condition did Beckett suffer from late in life?



34. : In which French city is Samuel Beckett buried?



35. : What role does “silence” play in Beckett’s dramatic works?



36. : What is the name of the character who is dominated by his servant Clov?



37. : Which Beckett play involves only a rocking chair and a recorded voice?



38. : Which of the following is not a play by Samuel Beckett?



39. : Who is Godot in “Waiting for Godot”?



40. : What theme is most prominent in Beckett’s literature?



41. : What object does Krapp eat at the beginning of “Krapp’s Last Tape”?



42. : What is a distinctive feature of Beckett’s later plays?



43. : Who was Beckett’s lifelong partner and later his wife?



44. : Which Beckett novel deals with a bedridden narrator with memory loss?



45. : What is the significance of the boy in “Waiting for Godot”?



46. : Beckett’s work is often compared to which philosophical movement?



47. : What kind of humor is typical in Beckett’s plays?



48. : What was Beckett’s full name?



49. : What is Beckett’s last major play before his death?



50. : Samuel Beckett received the Croix de Guerre for his work in:



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