Q 01/05

In which part of New York City was Arthur Miller born in 1915?

A) Brooklyn

B) Harlem

C) The Bronx

D) Queens

Answer · why

B) Harlem

His father ran a women's clothing business with 400 employees until the 1929 crash wiped the family out.

Q 02/05

After the 1929 crash, Miller's family moved to which borough, later the setting for Death of a Salesman?

A) The Bronx

B) Queens

C) Brooklyn

D) Staten Island

Answer · why

C) Brooklyn

As a teenager he delivered bread every morning before school to help out.

Q 03/05

Where did Miller study, winning the Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain?

A) Harvard University

B) New York University

C) Columbia University

D) The University of Michigan

Answer · why

D) The University of Michigan

He later gave his name to the university's Arthur Miller Theatre, the only theatre in the world named for him.

Q 04/05

Miller was exempt from military service in World War II because of an old high-school injury to what?

A) His hearing

B) His left kneecap

C) His spine

D) His right shoulder

Answer · why

B) His left kneecap

He worked in a navy yard instead while writing radio plays for CBS.

Q 05/05

Miller's first Broadway play, The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), closed after how many shows?

A) Sixty

B) Four

C) Forty

D) Fourteen

Answer · why

B) Four

He vowed to find another line of work if his next play, All My Sons, failed too.