Once in a Lifetime | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Act 1, Scene 1

1. What kind of play is ONCE IN A LIFETIME?

A lighthearted play.

2. Where are the New York stage performers headed?

To Hollywood.

3. Why are these New York performers headed there?

To make their fortune at the onset of talking pictures.

4. Of the main characters, who is the worrier?

May Daniels.

5. Describe Jerry Hyland.

He is the doer.

6. Who is an actor who is rather young, and single, and somewhat carefree and oblivious?

George Lewis.

7. Where does the first scene open?

In a two-bit hotel room.

8. What is George happily doing as this scene opens?

Thumbing through a copy of Variety magazine.

9. Who rudely interrupts George from what he is happily doing?

May.

10. How is May feeling when she enters the scene?

Anxious.

11. For whom is May waiting?

She is waiting for...
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