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Question #1

What does willing suspension of disbelief mean?

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. 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.

C. A technique used by actors in which they defer their own reality to accept that of the play.

Question #2

The term deus ex machina describes what following feature in classic Greek drama?

A. The machinery that rolled dead characters onto the stage.

B. A mechanical contraption created to save the action from its logical conclusion by flying in supernatural forces at the last minute of the play.

C. The altar located in the orchestra of the typical Greek theatre.

Question #3

When we speak about the fourth wall, what are we referring to?

A. A convention (in a proscenium-arch theatre) that the audience is looking into a room through an invisible fourth wall

B. The idea that (in a thrust theatre) the audience is participates in the action

C. The wings in a proscenium-arch theatre

Question #4

The two elements of theatre are:

A. Rituals and festivals

B. Storytelling and imitation

C. Universality and ceremony

D. Live performance and audience

Question #5

Style in the theatre results from:

A. A playwright’s assumption about what is truthful and valuable.

B. The manner in which the play is presented in the theatre.

C. The manner in which the playwright manipulates the means of expression.

D. All the answers presented here

Question #6

Which of the following is a definition of exposition?

A. The point of view of the protagonist.

B. Imparting information necessary for understanding the story not covered by action on stage.

C. The research provided to the director by the dramaturg.

Question #7

In the film Shakespeare in Love, what role did Viola first audition for?

A. Romeo

B. Juliet

C. Mercutio

D. Tybalt

Question #8

In the film Shakespeare in Love, how much money did Will wager (and win) from Lord Wessex?

A. 75 pounds

B. 50 pounds

C. 50 shillings

D. 75 shillings

Question #9

In the film Stage Beauty, Margaret Hughes borrows what from Kynaston for her own play of Othello?

A. Stage make-up

B. A pillow

C. A handkerchief

D. A costume cloak

Question #10

In the film Stage Beauty, who steps up for Margaret Hughes and makes it possible for her to legally perform in a play?

A. The King

B. The King's mistress

C. The producer

D. Margaret's father

Question #11

In the film Moliere, what did the title character want to perform, but had no talent for?

A. Melodrama

B. Satyr

C. Tragedy

D. Comedy

Question #12

In the film Moliere, M. Jourdain hired Moliere to help him with what?

A. To write a play to help woo Celimene.

B. To help him with a comedy skit for his daughters' school.

C. To spy on his wife and ensure her loyalty.

D. To learn to act for the town's big festival.

Question #13

In Greek antiquity, plays were created and performed solely at __________.

A. festivals

B. funerals

C. coronations

D. weddings

Question #14

Agit-prop is a term for plays with a strong social or political agenda.

A. False

B. True

Question #15

Bertolt Brecht made Epic Theatre and the alienation technique popular.

A. False

B. True

Question #16

In the virtual world of The Nether, Doyle's avatar was which character?

A. Papa

B. Iris

C. Sims

D. Woodnut

Question #17

Postmodernism is a contemporary concept that suggests artists and audiences have gone beyond realism and departures from realism.

A. False

B. True

Question #18

Renaissance is a term that means repetition.

A. False

B. True

Question #19

Opera emerged as an attempt to recreate the relationship between music and dance found in Greek drama.

A. False

B. True

Question #20

A strand of modern theatre that involves the mutual influences of theatre from around the world is called Globalization.

A. False

B. True

Question #21

Previews are the special performances held for the press.

A. True

B. False

Question #22

Elizabethan theatre was a shift from communal, religious, and occasionally performed theatre to a professional, secular and regularly performed theatre.

A. False

B. True

Question #23

The term blocking refers to establishing the performers’ movements and positions on stage.

A. False

B. True

Question #24

The actor’s function is to embody the characters.

A. False

B. True

Question #25

Directorial concept is the controlling idea/vision that the director uses to help tell the play.

A. True

B. False

Question #26

Realism and naturalism were based on the idea that character is determined by heredity and environment.

A. True

B. False

Question #27

The Restoration Period was marked by the restoration of the English monarchy.

A. False

B. True

Question #28

In Nō drama and Elizabethan theatre, female characters were played by women.

A. True

B. False

Question #29

In Greek theatre, the chorus served, in part, as a narrator and spectator.

A. False

B. True

Question #30

Julie Taymor is a theatrical storyteller who is a quintessential example of Globalization.

A. True

B. False

Question #31

Melodrama was popular because:

A. All of the answers here

B. Dislike for tragedies

C. Higher literacy rates

D. A rise in the numbers of the middle class

Question #32

If a Director needs her actors to come closer to the audience, she would tell the actors:

A. to walk downstage

B. to walk upstage

Question #33

The Fly Gallery and Fly Tower/Loft are a system and extension of a theatre that allow scenery to be raised and lowered above the stage.

A. False

B. True

Question #34

At the end of A Doll's House, when Nora is talking to Torvald, she compares his treatment of her to how her ___________ treated her? Fill-in the blank with a one-word answer.

A. father

B. brother

C. mother

D. sister

Question #35

In Ruined, after Mama Nadi gives Mr. Harari the raw diamond and asks him to wait until she brings out Sophie, Mr. Harari quickly and purposely runs away with the gem.

A. True

B. False

Question #36

In the digital production of Oedipus that you saw, the title character used a gold broach to pierce his eyes.

A. False

B. True

Question #37

Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and Anton Chekhov were known as the fathers of Realism.

A. False

B. True

Question #38

The Magic If is an acting exercise created by Stanislavski that requires the performer to "How would I react if I were in this character's position?"

A. True

B. False

Question #39

The Producer is responsible for bringing a unified artistic vision to the production.

A. True

B. False

Question #40

In The Nether, Iris has all the freedom she wants and even a lavish birthday party.

A. True

B. False

Question #41

The Dramaturg works on the literary and historical issues of the play with the artistic team of the production.

A. False

B. True

Question #42

A technical rehearsal is open to the public.

A. True

B. False

Question #43

Drapers are technicians who sew all the costumes for a production.

A. True

B. False

Question #44

A. False

B. True

Question #45

Mystery Plays were based on stories from the bible, and Morality Plays were plays designed to teach a lesson.

A. True

B. False

Question #46

Who invented the idea of a trilogy?

A. Shakespeare

B. Aeschylus

C. Sophocles

D. Euripides

Question #47

Commedia dell’arte was an Italian Renaissance form of popular theatre that was:

A. used stock characters

B. used masks

C. was performed by a traveling troupe of professional actors

D. very improvisational

E. all of the answers here

Question #48

In this class, I described theatrical storytellers as the purveyors of _________.

A. Truth

B. Answers to big questions on the human condition

C. Empathy

D. Creativity

Question #49

Romans were famous for borrowing ideas from others around them and innovating, rather than being great inventors.

A. False

B. True

Question #50

Which of the following would you say are stock characters?

A. All of the answers here

B. Miser

C. Captain

D. Servants

E. Lovers

Question #51

In The Nether, Doyle commits suicide at the end of the play once he realizes that Morris was right.

A. False

B. True

Question #52

A Doll's House Which of the following best describes why Ibsen thought that Nora represented a doll in the world of the play?

A. Torvald always treated her as a child and an object that was there to look upon.

B. Nora is so beautiful that she is fragile.

C. Nora always buys toys for her children.

D. Nora does not have a serious nature.

Question #53

Mother Courage and Her Children What is it that makes Mother Courage's wagon into a symbol?

A. It has to be hauled around.

B. It fits a lot of what she wants to fit in it.

C. She's had it for a long time.

D. Her kids live in it.

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