Q 01/05

In Fences, where did Troy Maxson learn to play baseball and first meet his friend Bono?

A) In the Army

B) In prison

C) At a steel mill

D) On a cotton farm

Answer · why

B) In prison

In prison, where Troy served fifteen years for killing a man during a robbery, he found both the game and his lifelong friend. He met Rose only after ...

Q 02/05

In Fences, what did Troy Maxson buy with the $3,000 his brother Gabriel received for a war wound?

A) A corner tavern

B) A secondhand car

C) The family home

D) A burial plot

Answer · why

C) The family home

The family home was bought with Gabriel's compensation, which is why Troy feels guilty now that his brother has moved out to rent a room elsewhere.

Q 03/05

In Fences, a union complaint makes Troy the city's first Black sanitation worker promoted to what?

A) Crew foreman

B) Route inspector

C) Union steward

D) Truck driver

Answer · why

D) Truck driver

Truck driver is the job he wins, though Bono points out that Troy has never held a licence. Once behind the wheel he misses having anyone to talk to.

Q 04/05

In Fences, how does Alberta, the woman Troy has been seeing behind Rose's back, lose her life?

A) In childbirth

B) In a car crash

C) In a house fire

D) Of a sudden fever

Answer · why

A) In childbirth

In childbirth: the news comes by telephone just as Troy is setting out to visit, and he is left with a newborn daughter, Raynell, who has no mother.

Q 05/05

Which actress won a Tony as Rose in the 2010 revival of Fences, then repeated the role on film?

A) Angela Bassett

B) Viola Davis

C) Octavia Spencer

D) Taraji P. Henson

Answer · why

B) Viola Davis

Viola Davis already had a Tony for another August Wilson play, King Hedley II, before she took on Rose.