SparkNotes: Miss Julie: Quiz

What is Diana's problem?

(A) She has been decapitated

(B) She has fallen for a servant

(C) She has slept with a mongrel

(D) She is a canary

What sermon is being given on Midsummer's day?

(A) The story of Herod

(B) The story of Saint John the Baptist

(C) The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife

(D) The story of Mary Magdalene

Where would Jean like to open a hotel?

(A) Lake Como

(B) Lake Moto

(C) Lake Jomo

(D) Lake Pomo

What does the hypnotist tell his subject in Miss Julie's explanation of hypnotism?

(A) To kill himself

(B) To bark like a dog

(C) To sweep the stage

(D) To chirp like a bird

What did Jean catch Miss Julie doing to her fiancé?

(A) Beating him with a stick

(B) Making him play fetch

(C) Riding him like a pony

(D) Beating him with a crop

Who conspired to burn down the estate?

(A) Miss Julie and Jean

(B) The Countess and her lover

(C) The Count and his lover

(D) Jean and Christine

In his ostensible attempt at suicide, Jean lies down in a bed of what?

(A) Stinking earth

(B) Rose leaves

(C) Human waste

(D) Alder leaves

Why has Miss Julie stayed home on Midsummer Eve?

(A) She cannot face her family in the wake of her broken engagement

(B) She cannot face her family after having slept with Jean

(C) She cannot face her family after learning the truth of her mother's scheming

(D) She hates her family for urging her to marry

Who else has attempted suicide in the play?

(A) The Countess

(B) The Count

(C) Christine

(D) Jean

Who does Christine ask Jean to play in the final scene?

(A) The Count before his daughter

(B) The Count before his wife

(C) The Count before his valet

(D) The Count before his cook

What does Miss Julie have Jean remove early on in their seduction?

(A) His boots

(B) His pants

(C) His shirt

(D) His livery

Why did the estate fall into ruin under the Countess's direction?

(A) Because she reversed sex roles

(B) Because she attempted to burn it down

(C) Because she was having an affair

(D) Because the Count was bent on tormenting her

What adorns the fountain visible through the glass doors?

(A) A statue of Saint Jean the Baptist

(B) A statue of Cupid

(C) A statue of Venus

(D) A statue of Justice

What does Christine not do in the first pantomime?

(A) Curl her hair

(B) Hum

(C) Clean

(D) Dance

If Julie confesses to her father, she imagines that he will do what?

(A) Kill her

(B) Die

(C) Have Jean arrested

(D) Send Julie to a convent

At the very beginning of the play, Jean describes Miss Julie as what?

(A) Sick

(B) Wild

(C) Beautiful

(D) Innocent

What "immediately" leads Miss Julie to flee with Jean to his room?

(A) Her approaching father

(B) Christine

(C) The approaching crowd

(D) The Countess

Jean's childhood memory of Julie places her in what setting?

(A) On the rose terrace

(B) In the Turkish pavilion

(C) In the kitchen

(D) In the onion beds

Late in the play, Julie delivers a tirade on annihilating Jean's "entire sex." What precipitates this speech?

(A) The decapitation of Diana

(B) The decapitation of Salome

(C) The decapitation of Saint John

(D) The decapitation of Serena

What does Jean see move of its own accord at the end of the play?

(A) The Count's boots

(B) Julie

(C) The bell

(D) The razor

Who wrote a story that might have provided the point of departure for Miss Julie?

(A) Ibsen

(B) Zola

(C) Chekhov

(D) None of the above

What is Christine cooking at the beginning of the play?

(A) A kidney for Miss Julie

(B) Serena' dinner

(C) A remedy for Diana

(D) A kidney for her dinner

What is Jean's job?

(A) Floor sweeper

(B) Stable hand

(C) Doorman

(D) Valet

What is Christine carrying in her last entrance?

(A) A hymn book

(B) Jean's shirt and tie

(C) Julie's handkerchief

(D) A bible

From whom has Miss Julie learned to hate women?

(A) The Countess

(B) The Count

(C) Jean

(D) Christine