December 22, 1999 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Samuel Beckett. To pay tribute, we offer our present quiz and a chance to win a book. E-mail your answers to bar_rev@retemail.es The winner will receive a book of choice of any Beckett work or any book of Beckett criticism or biography. We will continue to receive answers until December 31st. If there is more than one correct submission, the winner will be selected from a draw. All winners' names will be listed. |
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2. Contrasting his writing with Joyce’s, Beckett suggested that Joyce differed from him in being a: a) didgeridoo 3. What doctrine of the independence of mind and body expounded by a 17th-c. Flemish philosopher troubles Murphy and Watt? a) Rosicrucianism 4. In what did Beckett beat Solzhenitsyn by 12 months? 5. After being The Butcher Boy, The Navigator and The General, who was still silent in 1965? Buster Keaton 6. By whom was the Resistance cell in Occupied France in which Beckett was active infiltrated and betrayed to the Gestapo? a) a prostitute 7. What was significant about Beckett’s encounter with a pimp in Paris in January 1938? The pimp stabbed him. 8. What did Beckett describe as "the most distasteful job I ever
took on"? a) acting as amanuensis to Joyce 9. If one Hammer, how many nails? 11. "white world, bitter cold, ghastly scene, old men, great …": a) coats 12. Who soaps, thoroughly rinses and dries what or whom before the embers? a) sucky Moll; hairy Mac 13. Who asks "Dung? What would we want with dung, at our time of life?"? 14. Belacqua’s lunch of choice?
a) masturbating 16. Which of Becket’s works takes its title from a late poem by Yeats? 17. A novel by which 19th-c. English "Christian Socialist" did Beckett allude to in the title of one of his texts? 18. Who, in Beckett terms, is the odd one out? a) Lenny Bruce
a) Francis Bacon 20. To whom does Beckett refer in a preface as a "garrulous old dowager"? a) Peggy Guggenheim
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1. If Waiting for Godot is a play "in
which nothing happens, twice", in which play does something happen, twice? Happy Days
15. What were
the two chimpanzees doing in the photograph Beckett wanted to use on the cover of Murphy?
19.
To whose painting of two men looking at the moon did Beckett ascribe the inspiration for Waiting
for Godot?
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