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  Angels in America: Millenium Approaches    
Multiple Choice
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"Angels in America" is a play in two parts written by Tony Kushner. It won numerous awards and was turned into an HBO miniseries in 2003. Can you answer these questions about the first part? (This quiz contains spoilers.)
Average, 10 Qns, anthonyrappfan, Jan 14 07
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  The Great Work Begins: Angels in America   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
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This is a quiz about Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America". Questions are included about "Millennium Approaches" and "Perestroika". As this quiz contains quotes, spoilers are included.
Average, 10 Qns, purplearcher07, Dec 22 06
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  Advice from "Angels In America"   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
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Throughout Tony Kushner's "Angels In America", various characters attempt to counsel each other through the strange events they must all contend with. This quiz contains several examples of their wisdom...almost. Can you remember what's missing?
Tough, 10 Qns, fake_ghost, Feb 24 07
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  "Angels in America: Perestroika"    
Multiple Choice
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"Perestroika" is the second part to the award-winning play "Angels in America" by Tony Kushner. Test your knowledge with this quiz, which contains spoilers.
Average, 10 Qns, anthonyrappfan, Dec 22 06
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trivia question Quick Question
When Louis is talking to Belize in the coffee shop, he starts talking philosophy and politics. What does Louis think tolerance is worth?

From Quiz "The Great Work Begins: Angels in America"




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Tony Kushner Trivia Questions
1. What word is missing from this helpful tip? "Respect the delicate ecology of your _________."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: delusions

This advice is given to Harper by Mr. Lies when they go to Antarctica together and she wants an Eskimo to keep her company. Mr. Lies says there are no Eskimo in Antarctica, and that "even hallucinations have laws".

2. What is the organization that Mr. Lies works for?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: The International Order of Travel Agents

He tells this to Harper when he comes to take her to Antarctica. Mr Lies: "Mr. Lies. Of the International Order of Travel Agents. We mobilize the globe, we set people adrift, we stir the populace and send nomads eddying across the planet."

3. Mr. Lies works for the International Order of Travel Agents. What is their official instrument?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: Oboe

Mr. Lies is an hallucination dreamt up by Harper Pitt, a Valium addict who is married to Joe Pitt. Joe's coming out of the closet has upset her, and she runs away to what she believes is Antarctica, but is really Central Park.

4. According to Roy Cohn, where does he have clients?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Haiti

Roy explains a recent business trip to an irate client over the phone in Act One, Scene Two of "Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches". "No, I already told you, it wasn't a vacation, it was business, Mrs. Soffer, I have clients in Haiti, Mrs. Soffer . . . "

5. What's the missing verb here? "An angel is just a belief with wings, and arms that can carry you. If it lets you down, ________ it."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: reject

Hannah Pitt says this to Prior in his hospital room. It helps to have a pragmatic Mormon mother on your side when you're dealing with a mixed up angel with a will to stop the human race.

6. What does Louis say a sharp dog is as smart as?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: A really dull two-year old child.

Louis and Prior are having a discussion about cats, which leads to Louis' comment about dogs.

7. Prior Walter, a man with AIDS, wakes up from a dream in scene four of Act One. Lonely, he calls his nurse Belize. What song do they sing?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Belize continues singing the song with Prior even though a doctor is trying to give him the charts for a newly admitted patient, Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn finds out he has AIDS in the first part of "Angels in America". He insists that the diagnosis is wrong, claiming to have liver cancer.

8. Prior Walter tells his lover Louis Ironson that he has AIDS in the fourth scene of the first act. Where is Prior's Kaposi's Sarcoma lesion?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Near his shoulder

Prior reveals his illness to Louis shortly after the funeral of Louis' grandmother Sarah. Louis is ultimately unable to cope with this and leaves Prior. Kaposi's Sarcoma is a rare cancer that mostly affects people with AIDS. It causes black lesions to appear on the body. While Prior's appears on his body, lesions can also form in internal organs.

9. So many whats? "There are so many ______; find one you can break."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: laws

Disturbingly enough, this comes from Roy Cohn, the powerful lawyer, and mentor to Joe. In the scene from which this quote comes, Roy is attempting to impress upon Joe the value of not being nice.

10. Who turns out to be the man with the knife in Harper's hallucinations?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: Joe

Joe realizes this, in an argument he has with Harper right before he moves out. He tells her " As long as I've known you Harper you've been afriad of...of men hiding under the bed, men hiding under the sofa, men with knives....Who are these men? I never understood it. Now I know....It's me. I'm the man with the knives."

11. According to the Angel, what city does Heaven resemble?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: San Francisco

Prior and Harper visit Heaven later in the play. The Angel reveals that God had left Heaven on the day of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. It measured around 7.8 on the Richter Scale.

12. Joe Pitt is Roy Cohn's protege. What is his religion?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Joe is a Mormon

Joe is married to Harper Pitt, a Valium addict. He eventually realizes he is a homosexual and begins dating Louis, the former lover of Prior Walter.

13. What word is missing? "Real love isn't ________."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: ambivalent

Louis says this to Belize when they meet in a coffee shop. Belize is probably the last person who needs to hear this, mind you.

14. What number "Prior Walter" is Prior? Hint: use his counting.

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: 34

By Prior's counting he is number 34. The first ancestor that visits him tells him that he is the 32nd, because he isn't "counting the bastards."

15. Joe Pitt, estranged husband to Harper, is now living with Louis Ironson, Prior's former lover. What does Joe reveal about himself to Louis in the first scene of the third act?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: He's a Mormon

After talking with Harper for the first time since he moved out, Joe tells Louis that he is a Mormon. Louis had just woken up from a dream in which he found out Joe belonged to "some bizarre religious sect . . . "

16. Harper Pitt is Joe's wife. Which drug is she addicted to?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Valium

Harper takes Valium and often hallucinates while Joe is off at work. She often hallucinates she is in Antarctica on a trip set up by her imaginary friend Mister Lies. During one of these hallucinations she is actually in Central Park.

17. What's important to remember about Godly things, again? "Well, it has to do with God, so it's _______."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: not very nice

Don't ever let anyone tell you you can't get useful information out of dime-store dummies. Harper gets told all about how God changes people when she asks the mother mannequin at the Mormon Visitor's Centre.

18. When Louis is talking to Belize in the coffee shop, he starts talking philosophy and politics. What does Louis think tolerance is worth?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: Nothing

Louis says that what the AIDS epidemic teaches is tolerance. Louis: "what I think is that what AIDS shows us is the limits of tolerance, that it's not enough to be tolerated, because when (it) hits the fan you find out how much tolerance is worth. Nothing. And underneath all the tolerance is intense, passionate hatred."

19. While in the hospital Roy is visited by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. What event is she going to go see?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: Roy's disbarment hearings

Roy Cohn is disbarred from practicing law shortly before he dies of AIDS.

20. According to Prior in the seventh scene of the first act, where has he stolen the makeup from?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Macy's

Harper and Prior meet in a mutual dream/hallucination. In it, Prior is applying makeup while dressed in drag. It is in this scene that Prior tells Harper that her husband is a homosexual. Harper doesn't believe him.

21. "This is the very threshhold of _________ sometimes." Sorry, threshhold of what?

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: revelation

Who better to guide you through a dream than a Valium addict? Harper explains the supernatural powers of adults with imaginary friends to Prior.

22. What does Belize think is ambivalent?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: love

At one point Louis says that "Real love isn't ambivalent" but later when Belize is talking to him again, he (Belize) says: Justice is simple. Democracy is simple. Those things are unambivalent. But love is very hard."

23. In scene two of Act Four, who are spying on Joe?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: Prior and Belize

Prior wants to meet Louis' current boyfriend and brings his nurse, Belize, along.

24. Henry is Roy's doctor who diagnoses him with AIDS. Roy refutes this diagnosis and offers another diagnosis. What does Roy say he has?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: Liver cancer

Roy sees himself not as a homosexual, but as a heterosexual man who has sex with men. Gay people have no power or influence while Roy has plenty of both. Thus, according to Roy's convoluted logic, makes him not gay.

25. "I warned you, Louis. Names are important. Call an animal ______ and you can't expect it to stick around." What did Louis name the cat?

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: Little Sheba

Prior is trying to teach Louis a retrospective lesson about caution in naming. Louis wanted a dog anyways.

26. What kind of tree does Harper chew down in Central Park?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: pine

Harper is in one of her hallucinations and believes that she is in Antarctica chewing down a tree for fire. In reality she is in Central Park. Hannah receives a call from the police about the incident.

27. Shortly before he dies of AIDS in scene eight of Act Four, what does Roy say he wants to be reincarnated as?

From Quiz "Angels in America: Perestroika"

Answer: An octopus

Roy tricks Ethel into singing for him before he dies. Later, Louis and Ethel recite the Jewish prayer for the dead over Roy's body. "Next time around: I don't want to be a man. I wanna be an octopus . . . "

28. In Act Two Prior finds himself in a hospital. What is his relation to Norman "Belize" Arriaga?

From Quiz Angels in America: Millenium Approaches

Answer: They are former lovers

Throughout the rest of the play "Belize" is often in scenes with either Prior or Louis, although he is romantically involved with neither of them. "Belize" got his nickname by dressing in drag.

29. Which city are you being warned against in this unfinished quote? "Nothing good happens in _________."

From Quiz Advice from "Angels In America"

Answer: Washington

Harper is attempting to persuade her husband, Joe, not to accept an offer he has been given to go work in Washington. Not that she's especially happy at home in New York, but change is bad, right?

30. Who is the ghost that frequently visits Roy Cohn in the hospital, and was the one that told him of his disbarment?

From Quiz The Great Work Begins: Angels in America

Answer: Ethel Rosenberg

Roy was one of the lawyers responsible for the Rosenberg's executions. We come to find out that he called the judge every night to talk to him about the case, which is highly illegal.

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