English 3630: Modern English Drama

Make-up Final Examination Friday: 17 December 2004, 1.30-4.15

1. Please identify the IDS in THE SAME ORDER that they appear in the examination. (Leave a blank space on your page if you need to return to an unfamiliar ID.) Use ONE side of the blue book for your answers. Some of the questions will require more time for commentary on the style. But each of the questions will require commentary on their significance for the plot and the characters in the play. If you can’t find the source (page numbers would be helpful where possible), make a well-informed guess. There is a single ID from each of the plays we have read by Osborne, Pinter (5), Orton (3) Churchill (2), Stoppard (3).

2. Write a brief essay on your favorite play and on your least favoriteof those we read during the semester. (Don’t forget ‘Art” and The Visit.) Please give reasoned arguments for your judgments. This is not merely an “opinion paper.” In an ideal world this essay should not merely replicate your term-paper.

1.         Ug . . . ug-gug . . . .eeeh-gag (On the breath) Caahh . . . Caahh . . .

2          I gave up meat first, then cheese and eggs. I lived on a little porridge and vegetables, then I gave up the porridge and stopped cooking the vegetables. It was easier because I was living out. I ate what I could find, but not berries and nuts because so many people want those and I do well with sorrel and dandelion. But grass. It was hard to get my body to take grass.

3.         Shimbu or Mageeba?

4.         I dug about in the window box, where we had planted our pretty pansies, scooped and filled the bowl, and plastered his face with dirt. He was amused, aghast, and resisted with force.

5.         Have you got a hankie?

6.         Think of it as a breakthrough in dahlia studies.

7.         Perfectly in accord. I’ve published a monograph on the subject. I wrote it at the University. On the advice of my tutor. A remarkable man. Having failed to achieve madness himself he took to teaching it to others.

8.         A:        Well . . .

            B:        How are you?

            A:        All right.

            B:        You look well.

            A:        Well. I’m not that well really.

            B:        Why? What’s the matter?

9.         A:        What about your dinner?

            B:        [searching] Look . . . I told you . . . I haven’t got the . . . wait a minute . . . ah, here it is.

            A:        You can’t wear that tie. I haven’t pressed it.

10.       A:        I’d like to get married. It’s the one thing I haven’t tried.

            B:        I don’t like your living for kicks, baby. Put these neurotic ideas out of mind and concentrate on the problems of everyday life.

11.       A:        It’s his nerves. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

            B:        Put your teeth in, will you? Sitting there with them in your hand.

12.       A:        I’m sick of seeing you behind that ironing board.

            B:        (wryly). Sorry.

            A:        Get yourself glammed up, and we’ll hit the town. See you’ve put a shroud over Mummy, I think you should have laid a Union Jack over it.

13.       Macaroni Pastitsio. Ormitha Macarounda.

14        A:        There’s some in London say there is no sin. Each man his own religion nearly, or none at all, and there’s women speak out too. They smoke and curse in the tavern and they say there is no sin for they are God themselves and can’t sin. The men and women lie together and say that’s such bliss. I believe it for there’s such changes.

            B:        I’d like to go to London to hear them.