Identifying Titles, Authors, or Schools of Twentieth-Century Drama

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CLEP Humanities › Identifying Titles, Authors, or Schools of Twentieth-Century Drama

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1

Which of the following playwrights wrote the twentieth-century play A Streetcar Named Desire?

2

The playwright who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Speed-the-Plow was __________.

3

Which of the following is the title of Lorraine Hansberry’s play about a lower-class African-American family in Chicago?

4

Who is the playwright who wrote The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation?

5

Who was the playwright who wrote the works Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Yerma?

6

Who is the American playwright who wrote the “Pittsburgh Cycle,” a series of ten plays chronicling the African-American experience in the twentieth century?

7

Who was the Irish playwright who detailed his time in the Irish Republican Army in his plays?

8

Who was the playwright that wrote the plays Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Day's Journey Into Night,and The Iceman Cometh?

9

The playwright who authored The Children's Hour, A Watch on the Rhine, and The Little Foxes is __________.

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