CLEP Humanities : Answering Other Questions About Drama
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Example Question #1 : Answering Other Questions About Drama
The musical stage play My Fair Lady is based on what earlier stage play?
Pygmalion
Death of a Salesman
Mourning Becomes Elektra
The Iceman Cometh
Saint Joan
Pygmalion
My Fair Lady, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, is entirely based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. The characters and story, featuring a flower girl taught to be a lady who speaks properly, are almost exactly the same in each play. The musical simply adds songs, and crucially changes the ending to a happier one that features the two main characters staying together.
Example Question #266 : Literature
All of the following are classical Greek playwrights EXCEPT _________________.
Sophocles
Aristotle
Euripedes
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek scientist and philosopher. Sophocles is most famous for his three Theban plays. Aeschylus wrote The Oresteia trilogy. Aristophanes wrote comedies and Euripedes wrote dramas in Athens.
Example Question #2 : Answering Other Questions About Drama
All of the following writers were from the Elizabethan Era in England except __________.
Ben Johnson
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
The "Elizabethan Era" refers to England under the reign of Elizabeth I, who ruled from 1558 to 1603. Literature first flowered in England under Elizabeth, and saw the rise of playwrights like Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson, poets like Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare, who wrote both plays and poems. John Milton, author of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, wrote during the period of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, nearly a half decade after Elizabeth's death.
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