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1. Samuel Beckett studied at Trinity College in Dublin. Which subjects?
2. In 1928 Beckett moved to Paris to become a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In Paris he got to know a famous author who asked him to write an essay about one of his works. Who was this famous author?
3. In 1938 Beckett was stabbed in a bizarre street incident by a tramp. After recovering Beckett visited this tramp in Prison to ask him why he had tried to kill him. What did the tramp answer? (translated into English)
4. Beckett's dramatic works inspired critics to invent a new label: 'The Theatre of the Absurd'. Who published a book with the same name and was the leading theorist to 'The theatre of the Absurd'?
5. 'Waiting for Godot' is probably the most famous of Beckett's plays. Which of these characters does not appear in this play?
6. Hamm: We're not beginning to...to mean something? Clov: Mean something! You and I, mean something! Ah that's a good one! From which of Beckett's plays is this excerpt taken?
7. In which year was Beckett awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature?
8. Shortly after World War II was over, Beckett began to write on a trilogy of fiction. Which of these works does not belong to that trilogy.
9. 'Waiting for Godot' was Beckett's second play but the first one to be published. How is his first play called that has never been published?
10. Samuel Beckett died in 1989 at the age of 83. On which day?
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