MAJOR  BARBARA

George Bernard Shaw

1.      Major Barbara is a ___________ English play.

a)      one-act      b) two-act        c) three-act      d) five-act

2.      Major Barbara was first published in ___________

a)      1887          b) 1907            c) 1917            d) 1927

3.      The setting of Major Barbara is ___________

a)      Dublin       b) London       c) Bristol         d) Cambridge

4.      _________ is Sarah’s fiancé.

a)      Adolphus Cusins   b) Bill Walker  c) Charles Lomax        d) Snobby Price

5.      Charles Lomax will not receive his trust fund until he reaches __________ years.

a)      30  b) 35    c) 40    d) 45

6.      Barbara is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the _____________

a)      Salvation Army     b) Bible Societies        c) Christian Humanitarian Aid

d) Quaker Organizations

7.   Adolphus Cusins is a __________ scholar.

     a) Latin            b) Greek          c) Spanish        d) Irish

8.   Andrew Undershaft is a rich and successful ___________

     a) leather industrialist  b) automobile industrialist      c) munition maker      

     d) cotton grower

9.   Major Barbara is engaged to ___________

a)             Adolphus Cusins        b) Bill Walker  c) Charles Lomax        d) Snobby Price

10.  According to tradition, the heir to the Undershaft’s fortune must be __________

     a) an educated boy      b) a physically challenged       c) an army man           

     d) a foundling

11.  ___________ is the butler in Britomart’s family.

     a) PeterShirley b) Todger        c) Morrison      d) Bilton

12. ___________ is the motto of the Salvation Army.

     a) Bread and Butter    b) Violence and Savagery       c) Peace and Mercy    

     d) Blood and Fire

13. What is the name of Bill Walker’s daughter?

     a) Jenny           b) Sarah           c) Rummy       d) Mog

14. What does Barbara name mean?

     a) Beauty         b) Wisdom      c) Soulfulness  d) Loveliness

15.  What is Lady Britomart’s maiden name?

     a) Saxmundham          b) Undershaft  c) Fairmille      d) Stevenage

16. According to Undershaft, _________ is necessary to salvation.

     a) Money and intelligence       b) Baptism and first communion

     c) Money and gunpowder       d) Money and rage

17. What doe Undershaft identify as the worst crime?

     a) Poverty        b) Theft           c) Hypocrisy    d) Weakness

18. What does Horace Bodger produce?

     a) Arms            b) Liquor         c) Coal d) Bread

19. Undershaft’s firm was founded during the reign of _____________

     a) Elizabeth I   b) Victoria I    c) James II       d) James I

20. What job does Peter Shirley take at the foundry?

     a) Gate-keeper b) Grave-digger           c) Foreman      d) Driver

21. What does Undershaft consider the ‘final test’ of conviction?

     a) Power          b) Justice         c) Love            d) Killing

22. What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?

     a) Politics         b) Writing        c) Philosophy  d) Law

23.  _______ stole Bill Walker’s money.

     a) Rummy Mitchens    b) Jenny Hill    c) Snobby Price           d) Peter Shirley

24. Lomax is _________

     a) an atheist     b) a Catholic    c) an Anglican d) an agnostic

25. Undershaft agrees to pay _______ of Cusins’s proposed starting salary.

     a) half  b) three-quarters          c) three-fifths  d) all of it

26. As the play opens Lady Britomart tells Stephen that he must __________

     a) find his father          b) manage family affairs         c) give her advice

     d) marry off his sister

27. Andrew Undershaft arrives at Lady Britomart’s house and fails to recognize _______

     a) Major Barbara         b) Stephen       c) Lomax         d) Sarah

28. Undershaft visits Barbara at _______________

     a) boarding school       b) blanket factory        c) Salvation Army       d) dairy farm

29. Who finally becomes Undershaft’s heir at the armory?

     a) Barbara        b) Cusins         c) Stephen       d) Lomax

30. After Undershaft’s arrival, the family members come to abandon _________ across the course of the play.

     a) Undershaft  b) Stephen       c) Lady Britomart       d) Barbara

31. Barbara is about to humiliate _____ when Undershaft appears at the Salvation Army.

     a) Bill Walkers b) Rummy Mitchens   c) Peter Shirley            d) O’Brien Price

32. What allowed Undershaft to establish himself in the world?

     a) inheritance   b) his will        c) luck d) class status

33. Cusins is a student of ___________

     a) Sophocles    b) Euripides     c) Major Barbara         d) Undershaft

34. The characters in Major Barbara come to realize that _________ has/have power in the world.

     a) military industrialists           b) God c) individuals  d) the middle class

35. What does Undershaft consider the worst of society’s crimes?

     a) wealth          b) poverty        c) religion        d) war

36. __________ appears as the savior throughout the play Major Barbara.

     a) Cusins          b) Undershaft  c) Barbara        d) Lady Britomart

37. During the play, Barbara realizes that __________ is essential to salvation.

     a) God             b) poverty        c) selflessness  d) bloodshed

38. Undershaft demands __________ from other people.

     a) brotherhood             b) love c) resistance     d) obedience

39. What causes Undershaft’s name to appear often in newspapers?

     a) his weapons             b) accusations against him      c) his writing   d) threat of war

40. The reason for Undershaft to disinherit Stephen is _________

     a) Lady Britomart’s divorce    b) Lady Britomart’s infidelity                        c) Stephen’s spending habits  d) his desire for foundling successor

41. Barbara looks forward to her father’s visit as _________

     a) his soul needs saving           b) he is generous         c) she loves his attention

     d) she likes controversy

42. Undershaft says that as war becomes more destructive, war also becomes more ____

     a) deadly         b) fascinating  c) profitable     d) immoral

43. Lady Britomart surprises everyone by suggesting that they shall engage in ________

     a) debate          b) acting          c) prayer          d) games

44. Peter Shirley feels ______ about receiving a free lunch from the Salvation Army.

     a) ashamed      b) grateful       c) blessed        d) surprised

45. At the Salvation Army, Bill Walker blames and attacks __________

     a) Barbara        b) Undershaft  c) Jenny           d) Rummy

46. What causes Barbara to raise an objection to accepting a donation from Bodger?

     a) healthy finances      b) Undershaft’s objection       c) commitment to poverty

     d) his distilleries

47. Undershaft explains to Lady Britomart that ________ for the foundry to remain in the family.

     a) she must remarry     b) a miracle must happen        c) Stephen must apologize

     d) Barbara must marry a foundling

48. What makes Cusins a foundling and thus able to become heir to the foundry?

     a) his parents’ death    b) abandonment at birth          c) born in Ireland d) parents’ illegal marriage

49. Undershaft tells Barbara that he saves people from _______ which he considers to be the worst of all crimes.

     a) murder         b) greed           c) poverty        d) religion

50. After pledging to stay with Cusins, Barbara tells him she had planned to marry_____

     a) him  b) foundling heir         c) her father’s choice   d) a cousin

Answers

1.      c

2.      b

3.      b

4.      c

5.      b

6.      a

7.      b

8.      c

9.      a

10.  d

11.  c

12.  d

13.  d

14.  d

15.  d

16.  b

17.  a

18.  b

19.  d

20.  a

21.  d

22.  a

23.  c

24.  c

25.  c

26.  b

27.  b

28.  c

29.  b

30.  c

31.  a

32.  b

33.  a

34.  a

35.  b

36.  c

37.  d

38.  d

39.  a

40.  d

41.  a

42.  b

43.  c

44.  a

45.  c

46.  d

47.  d

48.  d

49.  c

50.  b