3. Question 1:Where did Alfred Jarry Arrive 200
years ago?
A. A horse factory B. ParisianTheatre
C. His grave D. A great
conclusion
4. Question 2: In France who had the longer
average Life between the years of 1890-1900?
A. Men
D.WomenC. Ducks
B.Who ever ran faster
5. The average life of man was 45.4 years while a
women's was 50 years
6. Question 3: In France what was used to stop
strikers?
A. Armed forces B. Reports
C. Police D. Attack dogs
7. Armed forced were normally called for riots due to
their large scale. It was because fewer jobs were
available to the workers, making it nearly
impossible to pay the taxes that was forced upon
them.
8. Question 4: between the years of 1870 and
1900 what profession was on the rise?
B. ActorsA. Factory workers
C. Lawyers D. Miners
9. Question 5:The character of Ubu was Alfred
Jarry’s metaphor for the…..
A. Upper class man B. Modern man
C. Politics D. His friends
10. The character is an antihero—fat, ugly, vulgar, dishonest,
stupid, cruel, cowardly and evil, who grew out of
schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated
teacher who had been at one point a slave on aTurkish
Galley.
16. By 1900’s tax revenues had increased from 6.4%
to 8%
Question 4
17. In the 1900’s, in order to get money for the
theatre, the company would solely use the ticket
sales in order to pay the costs
Question 5
18. The theatres would get wealthy benefiters
interested in the project and then invest, creating
some of the money they needed for the resources
then pay back the investor with sales.
19. Round 3: Finish Me OffYou _______!
You think our politics are messed up!
20. Question 1
The great depression began in 1870
and was most severe in ______ and the
U.S.
Europe
21. The great depression was somewhat brought on by
the change into the industrial era.The people
weren’t ready for the economic change.
22. Question 2
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that
________ France from its inception in 1894 until its
resolution in 1906
divided
23. Question 3
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who was involved in a
scandal, was convicted for ________ in
November 1894.
treason
24. Due to his treason he was sentenced to life
imprisonment for allegedly having communicated
French military secrets to the German Embassy in
Paris.
25. Question 4
“Ubu Roi” premiered in Paris in 1896 provoking
riots in the theatre and a national scandal. It
was banned after just ___ performances.2
26. The story was a re-telling of Shakespeare’s
“Macbeth” and is a vicious satire of the bloated and
corrupt state of pre-WorldWar I Europe.
27. Question 5
At the time, having a government and
monarchy was almost completely out of the
question. But Alfred Jarry still heavily _______
with the social standings.
disagreed
29. Question 1: Finish this quote from Alfred Jarry
“Laughter is born out of the discovery of the ___________”contradictory
30. Question 2: Ubu Roi was the basis for what Jan
Lenica’s animated film?
A. Dom B. Die Nashörner
C. Ubu et la grande gidouille D. Le sloth
31. Question 3: which one of these cultural themes
didn’t appear in Ubu?
A. Politics B.War
C.Women D. Family
32. Question 4:True of false?
The Belle Époque was a period in French and
Belgian history that is conventionally dated as
starting in 1871 and ending whenWorldWar I
began in 1914.
33. Question 5:Theatre adopted new modern
methods, including Expressionism, and many
playwrights wrote plays that _________
contemporary audiences, either with their frank
depictions of everyday life and sexuality, or with
unusual artistic elements.
shocked
