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Question #1
What functions did the chorus serve in the Classical Greek theatre?
A.   Served as a group character to express opinions or give advice.
B.   Served as the ideal spectator.
C.   Expressed the author’s point of view.
D.   All of the options here.
Question #2
What is the most significant difference between the experience of film and theatre as it concerns the performing arts?
A.   The relationship between the performer and the audience.
B.   Outdoor shots made from helicopters.
C.   Computer-generated special effects.
Question #3
Who is not a writer of a Classical Greek tragedy?
A.   Euripides
B.   Sophocles
C.   Aeschylus
D.   Aristophanes
Question #4
Who did not write Roman comedy?
A.   Plautus
B.   Seneca
C.   Terence
Question #5
Which definition best describes “willing suspension of disbelief”?
A.   A psychological dynamic in which one group of audience members can affect the responses of others to an event, particularly if they share the same cultural background.
B.   technique used by actors in which they defer their own reality to accept that of the play.
C.   A dynamic in which the audience agrees to accept the fictional world of the play on an imaginative level while knowing it to be untrue.
Question #6
In the Taming of the Shrew filmed production you saw for this class, Petruchio attempted to do what when he first met Kate?
A.   To deliver the news of his father’s death to people in Padua
B.   Kidnap Bianca and seek ransom
C.   Steal money from old man Baptista
D.   Woo her
Question #7
Which Japanese theatre form uses puppets as its main characters?
A.   Kabuki
B.   Kyogen
C.   Noh
D.   Bunraku
Question #8
Which is not a commedia dell’arte stock character?
A.   None of the options here
B.   Arlecchino
C.   Colombina
D.   Capitano
E.   Pantalone
Question #9
As in Greek theatre, Elizabethan drama did not show violence on stage.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #10
The Greeks were the first to create a democratic society.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #11
Hrosvitha (also Hrotsvitha) was the first known female dramatist.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #12
Renaissance is a term that means rebirth.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #13
Queen Elizabeth I rejected secular drama for religious drama.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #14
The plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe were mostly performed in private theatres.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #15
Public open-air theatres in Spain were called corrales.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #16
In Nō drama, female characters were played by women.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #17
Kabuki was originally created by a Shinto Priestess and was at first performed by female actors.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #18
Romans were famous for being great inventors, but not innovators.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #19
Mystery Plays spotlighted biblical/religious events, while Morality Plays used religious symbols and themes to teach moral lessons.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #20
Who is the creator of the trilogy?
A.   Sophocles
B.   Aeschylus
C.   Aristotle
D.   Aristophanes
Question #21
In the film Shakespeare in Love, which play does Queen Elizabeth I believe proves true love?
A.   As You Like It
B.   Romeo and Juliet
C.   A Midsummer Night's Dream
D.   Twelfth Night
Question #22
In Oedipus the King, whose murder must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes?
A.   Polynices'
B.   Polybus'
C.   Creon's
D.   Laius'
Question #23
At the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedict are a divorced couple. 
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #24
Which Greek god did Athenian theatrical performances celebrate?
A.   Zeus
B.   Athena
C.   Dionysus
D.   Hera
Question #25
Perspective drawing in scenery was widely used in Greek Antiquity.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #26
Theatre is a part of the Visual Arts.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #27
Commedia dell'arte was the only form of theatre in which women were allowed to act during the Renaissance.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #28
Poetics was written by __________.
A.   Terence
B.   Aristophanes
C.   Aristotle
D.   Sophocles
Question #29
Theatre is a non-mediated art form. 
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #30
Slapstick - a type of comedy or comic business that relies on exxagerated  physical humor; it was derived from a stick used to create sound in commedia dell'arte.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #31
In class, we watched a TED Talk by Ben Cameron. In that talk, Cameron expressed his concern with audience development in the age of the internet.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #32
The following are the major elements of theatre: • Audience • Performers • Script or text • Director • Theatre Space • Design Aspects
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #33
Neoclassical stands for never classical.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #34
Shakespeare's plays were staged before the English Renaissance. 
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #35
Lope de Vega wrote secular drama. 
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #36
Ludi Romani was a festival, which incorporated theatre, was dedicated to the God Saturn.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #37
  
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE

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