Quiz 9 EXTRA CREDIT QUIZ: THE WHOLE SEMESTER 10362

Question 1

The use of a rolling cart as a stage would most closely be associated with which era:?

 1960s America  

 The Medieval period  

 The Ancient Greeks  

 The English Renaissance  

Question 2

Farce is:

 A sub-genre of comedy  

 The use of poetry in playwrighting  

 The main genre that Shakespeare used  

 A sub-genre of tragedy  

Question 3

The Willing Suspension of Disbelief is:

 Not really an important idea for most theater or other forms of story telling  

 What it's called when the directors and designers collaborate  

 When audience members ignore what might not be true to real life  

 When audience members stop paying attention for a while.  

Question 4

The play The Laramie Project could be considered a Docudrama

 True  

 False  

Question 5

The genres and types of stories that are written about in theater and in television are completely different from each other and are never similar in any way.

 True  

 False  

Question 6

A Raked Stage means that it:

 Has a proscenium arch  

 Is clean  

 Has audience on all four sides  

 Is slanted  

Question 7

A Thrust Stage has audience on:

 All the way around the stage  

 Three sides of the stage  

 One side of the stage  

 Two sides of the stage  

Question 8

A fly loft is part of which style of theater?

 Arena  

 Proscenium  

 Found Space  

 Thrust  

Question 9

Which of these is NOT a Greek Playwright?

 Sophocles  

 Euripides  

 Aeschylus  

 Aristotle  

Question 10

A theatrical event can be put on in only one type of theater space.

 True  

 False  

Question 11

In the era of Modern Theater, Realism is really the only form of theater that people created

 True  

 False  

Question 12

Realism in European theater developed before Realism in American theater developed

 True  

 False  

Question 13

The ANTAGONIST in a play is usually a character who:

 Opposes in some way the Protagonist  

 Appears in the beginning of the play to explain the Exposition  

 Is the main character that we follow all along  

 Has little to do with the overall plot  

Question 14

The Lion King is a good example of a Post-Modernist play because:

 It has a large number of characters  

 It uses theatrical ideas from many different genres and cultures  

 It has been performed on Broadway for many years  

 It has a story that is completely unlike any other ever  

Question 15

Which of these was thought of as the first important Theater Critic?:

 Sophocles  

 Aristotle  

 Aeschylus  

 Euripides  

Question 16

Which of the following statements is true?:

 Elizabethan actors didn't perform inside theaters, but just on rolling platforms  

 Elizabethan Public theaters were all indoor theaters  

 Elizabethan Public theaters were open-air, permanent theater structures  

 Elizabethan Private theaters were all outdoors  

Question 17

In commercial theater, the producer handles the staging of the show and the director handles the money side of things:

 True  

 False  

Question 18

An Arena style theater has audience:

 On two sides of the stage  

 On one side of the stage  

 All the way around the stage  

 On three sides of the stage  

Question 19

In Ancient Greek theater, the area where the chorus stood was called:

 The Parados  

 The Perestroika  

 The Orchestra  

 The Skene  

Question 20

The proscenium arch became very popular in which era?:

 The Renaissance  

 Medieval times  

 The late 1800s  

 The 1960s  

Question 21

Globalization has had a huge impact on the recent developments of American Theater

 True  

 False  

Question 22

A proscenium style theater has audience:

 All the way around the stage  

 On three sides of the stage  

 On one side of the stage  

 On two sides of the stage  

Question 23

Konstantin Stanislavski was:

 All of these answers are true  

 Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theater  

 An actor  

 An acting teacher  

 Russian  

Question 24

All of Shakespeare's 37 plays are considered to be Tragedies

 True  

 False  

Question 25

In theater, the director is responsible for creating the "Blocking." Blocking is:

 Platforms where actors stand  

 The arrangement of and movement of the performers  

 Small pieces of wood used to help the stage stay in place  

 Running a meeting with designers and the producer