LUIGI PIRANDELLO TRIVIA

1) What year was Luigi Pirandello born?

Choose Your Answer: A: 1827, B: 1867, C: 1907, D: 1947

2) What was the vocation of Luigi Pirandello's father?

Choose Your Answer: A: Stage manager, B: College professor, C: Sulphur dealer, D: Circus acrobat

3) Where did Luigi Pirandello earn his doctorate in philosophy?

Choose Your Answer: A: University of Rome, B: University of Naples, C: University of Bonn, D: Oxford University

4) Luigi Pirandello's first literary efforts were in what medium?

Choose Your Answer: A: Short stories, B: Novels, C: Poetry, D: Plays

5) Which of Luigi Pirandello's plays became the first drama ever broadcast on television?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Rules of the Game, B: Six Characters in Search of an Author, C: The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, D: Lazarus

6) Luigi Pirandello's first three plays were each written in less than a _____.

Choose Your Answer: A: Day, B: Week, C: Month, D: Year

7) Which of Luigi Pirandello's relatives suffered from severe mental illness?

Choose Your Answer: A: His mother, B: His wife, C: His brother, D: His son

8) In Six Characters in Search of an Author, which of Pirandello's characters commits suicide?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Father, B: The Step-daughter, C: The Boy, D: The Manager

9) Which of Pirandello's plays depicts a madman who believes himself to be a medieval German Emperor?

Choose Your Answer: A: It Is So! (If You Think So), B: Henry IV, C: Ivan II, D: The Late Mattia Pascal

10) In Pirandello's instructions for his funeral, he wrote, "When I am dead, do not _____ me."

Choose Your Answer: A: Bury, B: Worship, C: Clothe, D: Mourn

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