Deck 1: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Question 1

Lomax will not receive his trust fund until he is

A)30
B)35
C)37
D)39

Answer 1

35

Question 2

The Undershaft tradition is to appoint

A)The eldest son as successor
B)The youngest son as successor
C)A foundling as successor
D)A brilliant daughter as successor

Answer 2

A foundling as successor

Question 3

Barbara is pleased that her father is going to visit them because

A)She misses him
B)She has something important to tell him
C)He had always wanted to give her monetary help
D)He had a soul to be saved

Answer 3

He had a soul to be saved

Question 4

The bargain that Barbara and her father struck was that

A)Each would try to convert the other to their cause
B)Each would try to convert as many converts as possible to their cause
C)Each would try to excel in uplifting the poor
D)Each would try to surpass the other in acquiring wealth

Question 5

Britomart accused Cusins of joining the Salvation Army to

A)Play the trumpet
B)Convert people to the worship of Dionysus
C)To worship Barbara
D)Help people in the Army

Question 6

Barbara realizes that those who hold the means of salvation are

A)Holy people
B)Humble people
C)Talented writers
D)Millionaires

Question 7

A Doll's House opens on

A)New Year's Eve
B)Passover Eve
C)Christmas Eve
D)Palm Sunday

Question 8

Barbara is engaged to

A)Adolphus Cusins
B)Charles Lomax
C)Bill Walker
D)Horace Bodger

Question 9

What does Undershaft identify as necessary for salvation?

A)Money and religion
B)Morality and money
C)Money and gunpowder
D)Money and marriage

Question 10

What job does Peter Shirley take on at the foundry?

A)Gravedigger
B)Gatekeeper
C)Foreman
D)Driver

Question 11

Where do Cusin's parents reside?

A)Canada
B)India
C)Spain
D)Australia

Question 12

Who steals Bill Walker's money?

A)Rummy Mitchens
B)Jenny Hill
C)Snobby Price
D)Peter Shirley

Question 13

What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?

A)A politician
B)A philosopher
C)A Professor
D)A lawyer

Question 14

When Sarah is to be married to her fiancé Charles Lomax, at what age could Lomax come into his wealth?

A)Twenty one
B)Eighteen
C)Thirty five
D)Twenty seven.

Question 15

To what does Andrew Undershaft compare his munition factory to and found many similarities with?

A)His daughter's upbringing
B)The Salvation Army
C)Lady Britomart's outlook on life
D)None of the above

Question 16

When Bill Walker refused to give his name to Barbara, she had to write down his name as _________

A)The homeless man
B)The man with no food
C)The man who struck Jenny
D)The man with a temper

Question 17

To whom did Barbara say that one cannot 'buy' his/her salvation?

A)Lady Britomart
B)Adolphus Cusins
C)Charles Lomax
D)Andrew Undershaft

Question 18

To whom did Barbara say that The Salvation Army cannot be bought?

A)Bill Walker
B)Andrew Undershaft
C)Mrs. Baines
D)Bodger

Question 19

Both Lady Britomart and Andrew Undershaft said that Stephen would make a good journalist because of what?

A)Because he was good at spending a lot of money
B)Because he knows how to use words that have no meaning
C)Because he liked to ask a lot of questions
D)Because there was no one who was vain enough like him

Question 20

What is Cusins's first name?

A)Horace
B)Adolphus
C)Charles
D)Andrew

Question 21

What is the inscription on the dome of the Labor Church in Perivale St. Andrews?

A)If God gave the hand, let not man withhold the sword.
B)No man is good enough to be another man's master
C)To man the weapon: the heaven the victory
D)All have the right to fight: None have the right to judge

Question 22

Who is Lord Saxmundham?

A)Andrew Undershaft
B)Lazarus
C)Horace Bodger
D)Todger Fairmille

Question 23

What does Undershaft identify as necessary to Salvation?

A)Baptism and first communion
B)Money and gunpowder
C)Money and mind
D)Money and courage

Question 24

What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?

A)To become a politician
B)To write
C)To become a philosopher
D)To go into law

Question 25

Who does Barbara ask for at the end of the play?

A)God
B)Undershaft
C)Cusins
D)Lady Britomart

Question 26

In Major Barbara, how old is Lady Britomart Undershaft

A)44
B)47
C)49
D)In her fifties

Question 27

Lady Britomart and her children lives in Wilton Crescent in the city of

A)Southamthon
B)London
C)West Ham
D)Birmingham

Question 28

Who does Adolphus Cusins believe is responsible for providing Barbara?

A)Himself
B)Lady Britomart
C)Mr. Undershaft
D)Stephen Undershaft

Question 29

The Salvation Army only takes what type of people

A)Bad people that need to be saved
B)Religious people
C)Hard workers
D)Good people who are out of work

Question 30

What is the primary reason Mr. Undershaft does not want Stephen to inherit the business?

A)Stephen is too young
B)Stephen is skittish
C)Stephen is not a foundling
D)Stephen is incompetent

Question 31

What changed Barbara's opinion on the source of power?

A)Seeing the success of his father
B)Seeing how easily a soul could be bought
C)Seeing the success of the Salvation Army
D)Seeing how easily a soul could be saved

Question 32

According to Undershaft, what is the most destructive and worst of all crimes?

A)Lying
B)Thieving
C)Poverty
D)Laziness

Question 33

Barbara symbolically leaves the Salvation Army when she ______ and hands it to her father.

A)Breaks her sword
B)Removes her badge of office
C)Rips up her enlistment form
D)Removes her whistle