Look Back in Anger By John Osborne: Question and Answer

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

2. Where was John Osborne born ?
(a) New York
(b) Paris
(c) London
(d) None of these

3. Who was his mother?
(a) Tanner
(b) Nellie Beatrice Grove
(c) Drury
(d) Mrs. Redfern

4. What was his mother by profession?
(a) Dancer
(b) Social worker
(c) Bar-maid
(d) Call-girl

5. Osborne was of about……when his father died.
(a) twelve (b) ten
(c) fifteen
(d) twenty

6. In which boarding house was he sent for study?
(a) Fletcher College
(b) Bellmont College
(c) British College
(d) Salem House

7. When did Osborne leave the school?
(a) 1946 (b) 1940 (c) 1942 (d) 1944

8. Which was Osborne’s most successful play?
(a) Hotel in Amsterdam
(b) The Entertainer
(c) Look Back in Anger
(d) Almost a Gentleman

9. When was ‘Look Back in Anger’ performed ?
(a) 1950 (b) 1956 (c) 1914 (d) 1945

10. In which theatre was it enacted ?
(a) Royal Court Theatre
(b) Globe Theatre
(c) London Theatre
(d) English Society Theatre

11. Which dramatic company performed it ?
(a) Royal Stage Company (b) English Stage Company
(c) British Stage Company (d) None of these

12. How old is Jimmy?
(a) 25
(b) 30
(c) 20
(d) 28

13. How old is Cliff ?
(a) Twenty nine
(b) Twenty five
(c) Twenty two
(d) Twenty one

14. How old is Alison ?
(a) Twenty one (b) Twenty three (c) twenty five (d) Twenty two

15. How old is Helena ?
(a) Twenty five (b) Twenty eight (c) Eighteen (d) Twenty

16. How old is Colonel Redfern?
(a) Fifty (b) Sixty (c) Fifty five (d) Sixty five

17. How many years has he spent as a soldier ?
(a) Twenty (b) Twenty five (c) forty (d) Thirty five

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

19. Which game do Jimmy and Alison play?
(a) Chess
(b) Cards
(c) Bears and Squirrels
(d) Hide and seek

20. The action of the play opens on……
(a) Sunday (b) Monday (c) Tuesday (d) Friday

21. Alison is always busy in……
(a) cooking (b) ironing (c) washing (d) dusting

22. Who remarks: ‘She’s a beautiful girl, isn’t she?’
(a) Jimmy (b) Helena (c) Cliff (d) Redfern

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

24. How much does Jimmy spend on newspaper every week?
(a) Nine pence
(b) Four pence
(c) Ten pence
(d) Twelve pence

25. What is Hallelujah?
(a) Song of loud noise (b) Song of praise to God
(c) Indiscipline
(d) A dramatic character

26. Who was Madeline ?
(a) Jimmy’s sister
(b) Jimmy’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mistress
(d) Alison’s friend

27. How older was Madeline than Jimmy?
(a) Ten years
(b) Four years
(c) Five years (d) Eught years

28. Who calls Jimmy ‘little Marchbanks’?
(a) Helena (b) Cliff (c) Alisen (d) Redfern

29. In which play does Marchbanks appear?
(a) Shaw’s ‘Apple Cart’
(b) Sheridan’s Rivals
(c) Shaw’s ‘Candida
(d) Sheridan’s ‘Critic’

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

31. Who was Ulysses ?
(a) A poet
(b) The great Trojan Warrior : King of Ithaca
(c) A dramatist
(d) A novelist

32. Who is Nigel ?
(a) Jimmy’s friend
(b) Jimmy’s brother
(c) Alison’s brother
(d) None of these

33. Whom does Jimmy call Lady Pusillanimous ?
(a) Alison
(b) Helena
(c) Alison’s mother
(d) Jimmy’s mother

34. Who is Jimmy’s landlady?
(a) Mrs. Redfern
(b) Miss Drury
(c) Mrs. Tanner
(d) None of these

35. Who applies soap on Alison’s burn?
(a) Cliff
(b) Jimmy
(c) Helena (d) None

36. After……of married life, Alison is pregnant.
(a) five years (b) three years (c) two years
(d) six years

37. Who is regarded as a mouse?
(a) Jimmy (b) Nigel
(b) Cliff
(d) Hugh

38. Who does Jimmy love the most?
(a) Ya Hugh’s mother
(b) Alison’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mother
(d) Cliff’s mother

39. Who is Mrs. Tanner ?
(a) landlady
(b) Hugh’s mother
(c) Jimmy’s mother
(d) Alison’s mother

40. When Jimmy plays the bear, Alison……
(a) squirrel
(b) she-bear
(c) fox
(d) sheep

41. Who comes to live with Alison ?
(a) Colonel Redfern
(b) Nigel
(c) Helena Charles
(d) Mrs. Tanner

42. Who calls Jimmy’s house a menagerie ?
(a) Helena
(b) Cliff
(c) Alison (d) Redfern

43. What is a menagerie ?
(a) A mad house
(b) place to collect wild animals
(c) A playground
(d) Ruined building

44. What is theology?
(a) Study of or system of religion (b) Study of plants
(c) Study of animals
(d) None of these

45. Who is called Auntie Wordsworth?
(a) Wordworth’s wife
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Wordsworth’s sister Dorothy (d) Wordsworth’s mother

46. To what year does the action of the play belong?
(a) 1924 (b) 1920
(c) 1930 (d) 1940

47. In which year did Colonel Redfern leave England ?
(a) 1920 (b) 1914
(c) 1925
(d) 1910

48. Colonel Redfern served in the army of……
(a) East India Company
(b) The Burmese Police
(c) The Maharaja
(d) Indian Government

49. Who is worth a half a dozen Helenas as to Jimmy?
(a) Cliff
(b) Alison
(c) Hugh’s mother
(d) Madeline

50. Who remarks that Jimmy was born out of his time?
(a) Alison (b) Helena
(c) Cliff
(d) Redfern

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

52. Who remarks : ‘They all want to escape from the pain of being alive’?
(a) Jimmy (b) Helena (c) Cliff (d) Alison

53. Who says, ‘Don’t you see ! I’m in the mud at last ?’
(a) Helena (b) Alison
(c) Cliff
(d) Redfern

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

55. What does Alison say when Jimmy says pathetically “Poor Squirrels !
(a) Dear Darling
(b) Poor bears
(c) Love me
(d) Nothing

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

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

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

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

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