Q.1
Kelly has said that his play's exploration of "whether it was right to sacrifice the individual for the many" was prompted by which of the following?
  • The Second World War
  • July 2005 bombings in London
  • The 2011 summer riots
  • Western foreign policy
Q.2
Where was first performed?
  • The National Theatre
  • The Globe Theatre
  • Royal Exchange Theatre
  • Edinburgh Playhouse
Q.3
“I don’t think he’s getting any kind of enjoyment out of it. He’s trying to make the best out of a bad situation – what he does is flawed but it’s also natural. When I was a kid I felt that parents and adults weren’t anything to do with my world. We sorted out our own problems, often in a terrifying way, and I think he’s actually trying to do something good.” Dennis Kelly defends one of his characters from accusation of being a psychopath in this quotation from . Which character?
  • Cathy
  • Leah
  • Adam
  • Phil
Q.4
Adam's name is a reminder of what?
  • The travels of Odysseus
  • The Apocalypse
  • The biblical story of creation
  • Shakespeare's play Macbeth
Q.5
The play draws upon which of the following:
  • Adult anxiety about, and fear of, teenagers
  • Fear of immigrants
  • Political anger about employment conditions
  • Contemporary despair about educational policy
Q.6
Many television crime dramas rely upon the notion of DNA evidence as proof of guilt. Which of the following is correct?
  • The evidence provided by the postal worker's DNA present on Adam's jumper is mere coincidence
  • In the play, the matching of DNA to the guilty perpetrator of the crime demonstrates how reliable this evidence is
  • The DNA proving the guilt of the postal worker is just as false as the rest of the group's invented explanation for Adam's disappearance
  • The title DNA has nothing to do with the events of the play
Q.7
In the play, Jan and Mark take the role of ...
  • the audience
  • an aside
  • the narrator
  • the chorus
Q.8
The author of a play is known as a ...
  • screenwriter
  • poet
  • playwright
  • copywriter
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