QUIZZ – SECRET LIFE OF HUMANS | English Theatre Frankfurt

1. How do Ava and Jamie meet?

He is one of her students

On a tinder date

On a bus

They used to go to school together

2. Despite of a rather unsuccessful date, Ava is interested in Jamie. Why?

Because of what he tells her about his famous grandfather.

Because of his good looks.

Because she needs a place to stay after having lost her job.

Because she lives very far away and has missed her last bus home.

Ava wants to learn something about Jamie´s grandfather, she did not know before. What does he tell her?

He tells her that his grandfather was secretly gay.

He tells her that his grandfather had 12 children.

He shows her poems his grandfather had written but never published.

He tells her about a secret room, his grandfather has kept locked.

Ava and Jamie go through the sealed boxes in the once locked room. What do they find that shocks Jamie?

Nazi memorabilia proving Bruno´s secret admiration for the Nazi regime

Adoption papers proving that Jamie is not related to Bruno after all.

Love letters from another woman than his grandmother.

Papers that prove Bruno´s contribution to the invention of bombs used for the bombing of Dresden and the bombing of Hiroshima.

Ava criticizes Bruno´s work. Choose the sentence that describes her reasons best.

She accuses him of being responsible for many unnecessary civilian deaths and of misusing science for murder.

She accuses him of sloppy and superficial work.

She thinks he was blind to the faults of mankind and painted a too positive picture of his own species.

She believes that Bruno should have published his insight-knowledge about the governmental projects.

George is Bruno´s colleague. What else do we learn about George?

George is secretly involved with his former roommate from college and is a spy for the Germans, leaking information about the bombs he and George try to engineer.

George lives with his former roommate from college but is in love with Bruno´s wife.

George recruits Bruno but later dies in a bombing.

George lives with his former roommate from college in a secret relationship. He loses him in a bombing.

George and Bruno worked together on their secret project. In hindsight, they deal very differently with what they´ve done.

While Bruno starts a new secret project involving atomic bombs, George cannot shake the guilt arising from his contribution to taking civilian lives after having lost his own partner in a bombing.

While Bruno tries to forget, George kills himself

George gets married and starts a family while Bruno opens a fund for relatives of bomb victims.

George and Bruno fight about the ethical responsibilities of science and eventually agree to never work with or see each other again.

How do Ava and Jamie part?

Ava and Jamie agree to meet again the next day to keep sorting through the files.

Ava is not interested in Jamie as a partner but promises to keep his family secrets safe.

Ava leaves, taking all their findings with her against Jamie´s will in an attempt to safe her career with a new paper or book about Bruno Bronowski.

Jamie leaves all the files to Ava hoping that he will learn more about his family history with the help of her research.

9. How many time periods does “Secret Life of Humans” span across?

10.

According to Ava and Bruno, the only thing we have learned from history is…

… that our ancestors keep living inside us.

… that we do not learn from history.

… that instinct is more influential than knowledge.

… that science does not kill. Ignorance does.