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Quiz about Angels in America Perestroika

"Angels in America: Perestroika" Quiz

"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.

A multiple-choice quiz by anthonyrappfan. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
anthonyrappfan

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
221,539

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

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

Cello

Bassoon

Oboe

Flute

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Question 2 of 10

2. 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? Hint

Joy to the World

Jingle Bells

White Christmas

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

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Question 3 of 10

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

Paris

Tokyo

San Francisco

Chicago

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Question 4 of 10

4. 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? Hint

He's illiterate

He's a Republican

He's a Mormon

He's an atheist

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Question 5 of 10

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

An old movie

A ballgame

Roy's trial for perjury

Roy's disbarment hearings

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Question 6 of 10

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

Ethel Rosenberg and Louis

Louis and Prior

Prior and Belize

Belize and Louis

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Question 7 of 10

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

A weasel

An octopus

A snake

A raven

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Question 8 of 10

8. While in Heaven Prior sees his lost cat, Sheba. Which one of the following ways did Sheba NOT die, according to Harper? Hint

Rat poison

Hit by a truck

Suffocated

Old age

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Question 9 of 10

9. In the ninth scene of Act Five, to whom is Roy speaking? Hint

Ethel Rosenberg

Joe Pitt

Himself

God

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Question 10 of 10

10. In the epilogue Prior, Belize, Louis and Hannah are seated in Central Park. Where exactly are they sitting? Hint

A park bench

The Bethesda Fountain

On the ground

On a fence

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

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

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.

2. 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?

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.

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

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.

4. 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?

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 . . . "

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

Answer: Roy's disbarment hearings

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

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

Answer: Prior and Belize

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

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

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 . . . "

8. While in Heaven Prior sees his lost cat, Sheba. Which one of the following ways did Sheba NOT die, according to Harper?

Answer: Suffocated

Harper's joking of course, cats don't really have nine lives!

9. In the ninth scene of Act Five, to whom is Roy speaking?

Answer: God

While the word "God" is never mentioned in Roy's speech, he does refer to his potential client as "King of the Universe". He's representing God for abandonment.

10. In the epilogue Prior, Belize, Louis and Hannah are seated in Central Park. Where exactly are they sitting?

Answer: The Bethesda Fountain

Prior speaks directly to the audience as Louis and Belize discuss Russia, five years after the play started. The last line belongs to Prior: "The Great Work begins."

Source: Author anthonyrappfan

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