Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
John Osborne was born on Dec. 12, 1929 in London. Nillie Beatrice, mother of John Osborne was a bar-maid. On 8 may 1956 at Royal Court Theatre the play ‘Look Back in Anger’ was performed.
The Plays written by John Osborne are
- ‘The Devil Inside him’ was staged in 1950.
- ‘Personal Enemy’ was written in 1955
- ‘Epitaph for George Dillon’
- ‘The Entertainer’ in 1957, a highly realistic play
- ‘Inadmissible Evidence
- ‘A patriot for me’
- ‘Play for England’
- ‘A Bond Honoured’
- ‘A sense of Detachment’
- ‘The End of Me Old Cigar’
Look Back in Anger: Question and Answer
These are popular question and answers related Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.
1. When was John Osborne born ?
(a) 1920
(b) 1929
(c) 1925
(d) 1930
Ans. b 1929
2. Where was John Osborne born ?
(a) New York
(b) Paris
(c) London
(d) None of these
Ans. c. London
3. Who was his mother?
(a) Tanner
(b) Nellie Beatrice Grove
(c) Drury
(d) Mrs. Redfern
Ans. b. Nellie Beatrice Grove
4. What was his mother by profession?
(a) Dancer
(b) Social worker
(c) Bar-maid
(d) Call-girl
Ans. C
5. Osborne was of about……when his father died.
(a) twelve
(b) ten
(c) fifteen
(d) twenty
Ans. a
6. In which boarding house was he sent for study?
(a) Fletcher College
(b) Bellmont College
(c) British College
(d) Salem House
Ans. b
7. When did Osborne leave the school?
(a) 1946 (b) 1940 (c) 1942 (d) 1944
Ans. a
8. Which was Osborne’s most successful play?
(a) Hotel in Amsterdam
(b) The Entertainer
(c) Look Back in Anger
(d) Almost a Gentleman
Ans. c
9. When was ‘Look Back in Anger’ performed in ?
(a) 1950 (b) 1956 (c) 1914 (d) 1945
Ans. b
10. In which theatre was it enacted ?
(a) Royal Court Theatre
(b) Globe Theatre
(c) London Theatre
(d) English Society Theatre
Ans. a
11. Which dramatic company performed it ?
(a) Royal Stage Company (b) English Stage Company
(c) British Stage Company (d) None of these
Ans. b
12. How old is Jimmy?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 20
(d) 28
Ans. a
13. How old is Cliff ?
(a) Twenty nine
(b) Twenty five
(c) Twenty two
(d) Twenty one
Ans. b
14. How old is Alison ?
(a) Twenty one (b) Twenty three (c) twenty five (d) Twenty two
Ans. c
15. How old is Helena ?
(a) Twenty five (b) Twenty eight (c) Eighteen (d) Twenty
Ans. a
16. How old is Colonel Redfern?
(a) Fifty (b) Sixty (c) Fifty five (d) Sixty five
Ans. b
17. How many years has he spent as a soldier ?
(a) Twenty (b) Twenty five (c) forty (d) Thirty five
Ans. c
18. The play presents the……period.
(a) Post-Second World War (b) Pre First World War
(c) Post First World War
(d) None of these
Ans. a
19. Which game do Jimmy and Alison play?
(a) Chess
(b) Cards
(c) Bears and Squirrels
(d) Hide and seek
Ans. c
20. The action of the play opens on……
(a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday
Ans. a
21. Alison is always busy in……
(a) cooking (b) ironing (c) washing (d) dusting
Ans. b
22. Who remarks: ‘She’s a beautiful girl, isn’t she?’
(a) Jimmy (b) Helena (c) Cliff (d) Redfern
Ans. c
23. Who makes a very moving appeal to all Christians to do all they can to assist in the manufacture of the H-Bam?
(a) Jimmy
(b) Bishop of Bromley
(c) Clift
(d) Hugh
Ans. b
24. How much does Jimmy spend on newspaper every week?
(a) Nine pence
(b) Four pence
(c) Ten pence
(d) Twelve pence
Ans. a
25. What is Hallelujah?
(a) Song of loud noise (b) Song of praise to God
(c) Indiscipline
(d) A dramatic character
Ans. b
26. Who was Madeline ?
(a) Jimmy’s sister
(b) Jimmy’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mistress
(d) Alison’s friend
Ans. c
27. How older was Madeline than Jimmy?
(a) Ten years
(b) Four years
(c) Five years (d) Eught years
Ans. a
28. Who calls Jimmy ‘little Marchbanks’?
(a) Helena (b) Cliff (c) Alisen (d) Redfern
Ans. b
29. In which play does Marchbanks appear?
(a) Shaw’s ‘Apple Cart’
(b) Sheridan’s Rivals
(c) Shaw’s ‘Candida
(d) Sheridan’s ‘Critic’
Ans. c
30. Who was Emily Bronte ?
(a) The author of Wuthering Heights’
(b) Jimmy’s landlady
(c) The author of ‘Vanity Fair
(d) Alison’s mother
Ans. a
31. Who was Ulysses ?
(a) A poet
(b) The great Trojan Warrior : King of Ithaca
(c) A dramatist
(d) A novelist
Ans. b
32. Who is Nigel ?
(a) Jimmy’s friend
(b) Jimmy’s brother
(c) Alison’s brother
(d) None of these
Ans. c
33. Whom does Jimmy call Lady Pusillanimous ?
(a) Alison
(b) Helena
(c) Alison’s mother
(d) Jimmy’s mother
Ans. a
34. Who is Jimmy’s landlady?
(a) Mrs. Redfern
(b) Miss Drury
(c) Mrs. Tanner
(d) None of these
Ans. b
35. Who applies soap on Alison’s burn?
(a) Cliff
(b) Jimmy
(c) Helena (d) None
Ans. a
36. After……of married life, Alison is pregnant.
(a) five years (b) three years (c) two years
(d) six years
Ans. b
37. Who is regarded as a mouse?
(a) Jimmy (b) Nigel
(b) Cliff
(d) Hugh
Ans. c
38. Who does Jimmy love the most?
(a) Ya Hugh’s mother
(b) Alison’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mother
(d) Cliff’s mother
Ans. a
39. Who is Mrs. Tanner ?
(a) landlady
(b) Hugh’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mother
(d) Alison’s mother
Ans. b
40. When Jimmy plays the bear, Alison……
(a) squirrel
(b) she-bear
(c) fox
(d) sheep
Ans. a
41. Who comes to live with Alison ?
(a) Colonel Redfern
(b) Nigel
(c) Helena Charles
(d) Mrs. Tanner
Ans. c
42. Who calls Jimmy’s house a menagerie ?
(a) Helena
(b) Cliff
(c) Alison (d) Redfern
Ans. a
43. What is a menagerie ?
(a) A mad house
(b) place to collect wild animals
(c) A playground
(d) Ruined building
Ans. b
44. What is theology?
(a) Study of or system of religion (b) Study of plants
(c) Study of animals
(d) None of these
Ans. a
45. Who is called Auntie Wordsworth?
(a) Wordworth’s wife
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy (d) Wordsworth’s mother
Ans. C
46. To what year does the action of the play belong?
(a) 1924 (b) 1920
(c) 1930 (d) 1940
Ans. a
47. In which year did Colonel Redfern leave England ?
(a) 1920 (b) 1914
(c) 1925
(d) 1910
Ans. b
48. Colonel Redfern served in the army of……
(a) East India Company
(b) The Burmese Police
(c) The Maharaja
(d) Indian Government
Ans. c
49. Who is worth a half a dozen Helenas as to Jimmy?
(a) Cliff
(b) Alison
(c) Hugh’s mother
(d) Madeline
Ans. b
50. Who remarks that Jimmy was born out of his time?
(a) Alison (b) Helena
(c) Cliff
(d) Redfern
Ans. b
51. Who comments that Jimmy wants a kind of cross between a mother and a Greek courtesan……
(a) Helena (b) Cliff
(c) Alison (d) Redfern
Ans. c
52. Who remarks : ‘They all want to escape from the pain of being alive’?
(a) Jimmy (b) Helena (c) Cliff (d) Alison
Ans. a
53. Who says, ‘Don’t you see ! I’m in the mud at last ?’
(a) Helena (b) Alison
(c) Cliff
(d) Redfern
Ans. b
54. Jimmy stands frozen for a moment when……
(a) Helena slaps on his face
(b) Alison collapses at his feet
(c) Alison leaves him
(d) Cliff leaves him
Ans. b
55. What does Alison say when Jimmy says pathetically “Poor Squirrels !
(a) Dear Darling
(b) Poor bears
(c) Love me
(d) Nothing
Ans. b
56. In which scene does Helena appear in the play?
(a) Act II Scene 1
(b) Act II Scene II
(c) Act III Scene I
(d) Act III Scene II
Ans. a
57. In which scene does Colonel Redfern appear?
(a) Act I Scene II
(b) Act II Scene II
(c) Act III Scene II
(d) Act III Scene I
Ans. b
58. In which scene does Cliff give up Jimmy?
(a) Act III Scene II
(b) Act II Scene I
(c) Act III Scene I
(d) Act II Scene II
Ans. c
59. In which scene does Helena seduce Jimmy?
(a) Act I Scene I
(b) Act II Scene II
(c) Act III Scene I
(d) Act II Scene I
Ans. b
60. In which Act do Jimmy and Alison play Bears and Squirrels game?
(a) Act
(b) Act II
(c) Act II
(d) None of these
Ans. a
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