SparkNotes: Long Day's Journey into Night: Review Quiz

The second Tyrone child who died in infancy was named:

(A) James

(B) Edmund

(C) Eugene

(D) Steven

Earlier in life, Tyrone was a:

(A) Broadway actor

(B) Movie star

(C) Real estate agent

(D) Novelist

The Tyrone family ancestry originates in:

(A) Germany

(B) Ireland

(C) England

(D) Italy

As a young girl, one of Mary's dreams was to be:

(A) An actress

(B) A professional singer

(C) A secretary

(D) A nun

Edmund is inflicted with:

(A) Consumption

(B) Whooping cough

(C) Cancer

(D) Epilepsy

Mary is addicted to what drug?

(A) Marijuana

(B) Cocaine

(C) Morphine

(D) Alcohol

The Tyrone's servant is named:

(A) Dorothy

(B) Cathleen

(C) Lesley

(D) Mary

Mary's father died of:

(A) Cancer

(B) Alcoholism

(C) Blood poisoning

(D) Consumption

Tyrone's career as an actor ran dry when he:

(A) Sold out to one particular role for commercial success

(B) Broke his leg onstage

(C) Left the theater to raise his infant children

(D) Left New York to live permanently in the midwest

Other plays by Eugene O'Neill include:

(A) Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

(B) A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

(C) Ah America!, The Polar Bear

(D) The Iceman Cometh, The Hairy Ape

Long Day's Journey into Night is best described as:

(A) An autobiographical account of O'Neill's own family

(B) An expose piece on his relationship with his sons

(C) A statement to his mother about how he relates with his own wife

(D) A biographical sketch of the life of Arthur Miller

Long Day's Journey into Night was published:

(A) When it was written in 1940

(B) Immediately after the death of O'Neill's brother

(C) Posthumously

(D) When O'Neill's first son was born

Tyrone maintains that the only literature worth reading is:

(A) Irish legends

(B) Shakespeare

(C) French poetry

(D) Victorian English playwrights such as Oscar Wilde

Tyrone and Mary, in terms of religion, are:

(A) Catholics

(B) Atheists

(C) Lutherans

(D) Methodists

Structurally, the play is centered around:

(A) Meals

(B) Outings into town

(C) Tea breaks

(D) Visits from neighbors

Tyrone has a strong obsession with:

(A) Prostitutes

(B) Baseball

(C) Cars

(D) Money

Mary met Tyrone when:

(A) They were in high school together

(B) She saw him act in a play

(C) He unexpectedly called on her father at her house one day

(D) He worked at the grocery store at which she shopped

When in town late during the night in Act IV, Jamie:

(A) Plays craps with all his friends

(B) Spends all night in a bar hitting on rich women

(C) Calls on an obese prostitute

(D) Passes out in the street

Long Day's Journey into Night is one of O'Neill's:

(A) Early plays

(B) Victorian comedies

(C) Later tragedies

(D) Shakespearean imitations

At the end of the play, Edmund:

(A) Dies from consumption

(B) Attacks his father

(C) Agrees upon a good sanatorium with his father

(D) Leaves the family

The second O'Neill child who died in infancy died:

(A) When Jamie infected it with measles

(B) When Edmund dropped it accidentally

(C) In an automobile accident

(D) Shortly after birth from causes unknown

Tyrone's father:

(A) Abandoned Tyrone as a young boy

(B) Murdered Tyrone's mother

(C) Spoiled Tyrone excessively, raising him like a prince

(D) Lives with his son, daughter-in-law and grandsons in America

The name of the doctor who diagnoses Edmund is:

(A) Doc Jones

(B) Doc Zhivago

(C) Doc Drew

(D) Doc Hardy

Eugene O'Neill was born in:

(A) 1706

(B) 1805

(C) 1888

(D) 1927

During Act IV, the Tyrone men hear Mary:

(A) Singing her old choir songs

(B) Playing the piano

(C) Praying to God for more morphine

(D) Talking to herself about her plans to commit suicide