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46 Cards in this Set
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What’s George’s problem(s) in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Living in the past/ Living in illusions
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What’s Martha’s problem(s)?
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Her domineering father/ Her inability to have children
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What does George’s game of “Get the Guests” involve?
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Telling Honey he knows about her hysterical pregnancy
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Why is it necessary for the imaginary son to die?
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Because he gets in the way of a genuine love between George and Martha
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What does the reference to Virginia Woolf probably represent?
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The need for self-determinism
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Where, reportedly, did Albee get the title for the play?
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It was written on a subway wall
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In Who’s Afraid, what happens to the boy in George’s book?
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He ends up in an asylum
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Who in Who’s Afraid, is described as being a “church mouse” with red eyes that steals money from the faithful?
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Honey’s father
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What object in Who’s Afraid might be read as a phallic symbol?
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The fake shotgun
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Which of the lines below did Edward Albee borrow from Tennessee Williams to use in Who’s Afraid?
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“Flores para los muertos”
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What’s the significance of the time at which Who’s Afraid ends?
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It signifies spiritual death? It signifies rebirth? It signifies truth? AC? BC?
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What does “Walpurgesnacht” refer to?
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Witches being revealed
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Martha says to George “You can stand it? You married me for it!”? For what?
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Punishment
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What moment is Honey’s “salvation” in the play?
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When she decides not to sleep with George? When she decides she wants to have children? When she decides to leave Nick and live on her own for a while? When she admits to George that she has had abortions? When she tells Nick that she loves him?
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What’s the significance of George and Nick’ academic specialties?
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George’s represents humanity, Nick’s abstraction
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What does George think Nick is going to do with his research?
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Make everyone the same
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A catharsis follows which event in the novel?
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George pointing a toy rifle at Martha
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How does George repeatedly describe Honey in Who’s Afraid…?
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Slim-hipped
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What kind of animal does George compare Martha’s father to?
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A mouse
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What was Honey’s father’s profession?
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Preacher
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When Honey is on the floor of the bathroom, what does she start doing?
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Peeling bottle labels
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In the original version of the play, George warns Martha before the guests come in not to talk about:
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Their child
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When Martha’s father will not allow George to publish his novel, George tries to convince him by saying that:
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The novel is true
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Martha is disappointed in George because:
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He is not running the history department
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What does Honey reveal to George that she is afraid of?
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Having children
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Why did Honey and Nick get married?
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They thought she was pregnant
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What kind of flowers does George bring to Martha?
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Snapdragons
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What does George do while Nick and Martha are necking?
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Reads
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What do we know for certain about George’s book?
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None of the above
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Why do Nick and Honey stick around for all this abuse?
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Nick is brown-nosing
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Why don’t George and Martha have real children?
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George is impotent
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What keeps George and Martha from finding true love?
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The illusions in their lives
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What does George’s game of “Bringing up Baby” involve?
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Killing off the imaginary son
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Why does Martha stay with George?
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He is the only man she’s ever loved
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What language does George recite his prayer in?
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Latin
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What is “Bergin”?
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A non-existent liquor
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According to lecture, what is the organizational strategy Albee uses in the play?
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Crisis and Catharsis
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What, finally, is the play probably about?
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The inability to love or be loved
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What is one of the “games” they play?
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Get the Guests, humiliated the host, hump the hostess
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What is the last thing you see in the movie version of Who’s Afraid?
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Clasped hands in front of window
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What does Martha declare that George is in the history department?
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Bog
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What’s George’s novel about in Who’s Afraid…”?
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A boy who kills his parents
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Why does Nick marry Honey?
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Her fathers got money/ she’s supposedly pregnant
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What happens in the boxing story Martha tells?
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She hits George
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Who was Martha’s first husband?
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A gardener at her school
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What might have happened to George’s parents?
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He killed them
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