Choose the correct statements:

1. A. Miller's play The Crucible was first written in verse.
2. B. The American Dream is a play by Edward Albee about the absurd situation and immediate realities.
3. C. The American Dream is a novel by Ionesco about the problems of a middle-aged professional.
4. D. Miller's play The Price is set in a baroque palace in Eastern Europe, debating the responsibility of the writer and the extent to which reality is a series of performed gestures.
5. E. Miller's play The Price explores the extent to which we retrospectively invent our own history.

1. AA, C and D only
2. BB, D and E only
3. CB, C and D only
4. DA, B and E only

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Correct answer: D. A, B and E only

Explanation

B is correct: Albee's one-act satire The American Dream (1961) belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. E is correct: in The Price (1968) two brothers re-tell their shared past. D is wrong because it describes Miller's The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), not The Price. C is wrong (Ionesco wrote no such novel). The key treats A as true; whatever one makes of it, option 4 is the only choice that contains both B and E and excludes C and D.

Note: Statement A could not be independently confirmed; the answer is fixed by eliminating C and D.