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Freshman Acting
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Study First
Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Cold reading
Inflection
Resonance
2. How loud or soft your voice is.
Volume
Cold reading
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Breathing using diaphram
3. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Tempo
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Script
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
4. ______ is auditioning with a script that you have not had the opportunity to read before the audition.
Project
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Cold reading
Capabilities - limitations
5. How loud or soft your voice is.
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Volume
Articulators
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
6. Improvisation requires _____ ______ and the ability to use past personal experiences.
Articulation
Spontaneity imagination
Pitch
Beats
7. The text of the play is the _____.
Impovise
Isolate
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Script
8. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
articulation
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Pantomiming
Cross
9. Acting without words through facial expression and gesture.
Story - conflict
Tempo
Inflection
Pantomime
10. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Shared position
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Improvisation requires spontaneity imagination.
11. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Capabilities - limitations
Upstage
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Beats
12. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called ___________.
Articulation
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Shared position
Tempo
13. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
Script
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Breathing using diaphram
14. ______ is to make your voice fill the performance space.
Focus
Project
Cold Reading
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
15. What are the two types of movement covered in pantomime?
Tell - show
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
16. Consonants are formed by ______ which are the ____ - ____ - _____ - ____ and the _________.
Cross
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Similarities - differences
Resonance
17. The parts of the body that create vowel sounds.
Resonators
Beats
Tempo
Improvise
18. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs are called _______.
Pitch
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Pitch
Phrasing
19. The clear and precise pronunciation of words is called....
articulation
Inflection
Sense memory
Inflection
20. To speak or to act without a script
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
Script
Impovise
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
21. What is good posture?
Breathing using diaphram
Beats
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Phrasing
22. Information that is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words
Subtext
Resonators
Upstage
Quality
23. Stealing focus of a scene.
Sense memory
Cold Reading
Upstage
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
24. Vowels are formed by _____ which are the _____ -____ -_____ and the ______
Articulation
Vowels are formed by the hard and soft palate - throat - sinuses - and the vibrations.
Open
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
25. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occurs
Beats
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
Volume
Quality
26. A position onstage in which one actor mirrors another actor's body position.
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Storytellers acknowledge the listeners and adpt the story accordingly -storytellers take on many different characters and don't stick to just one -some stories may span many years with int so it takes more than one session to tell
Good posture is... standing up tall with your feet shoulder width apart; allowing yourself to relax completely.
Shared Position
27. Whether your voice is shrill - nasal - raspy - breathy - booming etc_____.
Isolate
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Quality
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
28. How you divide your speeches into smaller parts - adding pauses to create emphasis and rhythmic pattern of sounds and silences is _______.
Volume
Beats
Project
Articulation
29. In improvisation you must create _____ and _____ immediately and without preparation.
Open
Inflection
Articulators
In improvisation you must create speeches and actions immediately and without preparation.
30. Consonants are formed by _____ which are the ___ -____ -____ -____ and the _______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Volume
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
*an action that tells the audience something about the character you are preforming as - a movement that tells a story without words
31. Stealing focus of a scene.
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Standing up straight - shoulders back - chin up - imagine body suspended from string
Upstage
Resonators
32. How loud or soft your voice is ______.
Inflection
Pitch
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Subtext
33. To keep your face and the front of your body visible to the audience as much as possible.
Articulators
Tempo
Open
Resonants - hard palate - soft palate - throat - sinuses
34. The text of the play.
Script
Cold Reading
Shared position
Open
35. ______ is to speak or to act without a script.
Improvise
Inflection
Quality
Pitch
36. Using a variety in your voice to express your changing thoughts and emotions is called...
Articulators - jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - soft palate
Pitch
Cold reading
Inflection
37. Information This is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words is _______.
Subtext
Cold reading
Resonators
Articulators
38. For successful stage pantomime you must use your _____ and _______ to communicate your reactions - both _____ and _______ to characters - events - objects - and environments.
Quality
Facial expressions - body movements - physical - emotional
Resonators
Inflection
39. In improvisation you must create _____ and ______ immediately and without preparation.
Project
Pitch
Story - conflict
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
40. A major difference between the traditions of storytelling and theatre is that storytellers generally _____ a story - punctuation it with the imitation of character voices and gestures - while actors generally ____ a show - supply explanation when nec
Sense memory
Cold reading
Tell - show
Loosen muscles - reminds you of space around you - relieves stress - find focus - prepare and energize
41. What are the three types of movement covered in pantomime?
Articulation
Resonance
Any movement that tells us something important about the character -movement that tells us a story through silent action alone -movement that portrays an activity without using objects
Focus
42. In improvisation you must also pay close _____ to what your fellow actors are saying and doing so you can ____ accordingly. ____ _____ is also vital for improvisation
Attention - react - cooperative flexibility
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Articulators
Pitch
43. Describe diaphragmatic breathing
Phrasing
Inflection
Diaphragmatic breathing is when your diaphragm closes when you inhale and expands when you exhale.
Resonators
44. How fast or slow you speak is _____.
Capabilities - limitations
Around age of cave dwellers - use to tell myths - legends - and folktales
Tempo
Quality
45. To make your voice fill the performance space.
Script
Focus
Project
Cross
46. What is the purpose of physical warm ups?
Physical warm-ups help get your body physically and mentally prepared for whatever exercise/ activity you plan to do.
Cross
Open
Resonance.
47. an expressive movement of the body or limbs is a ______.
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Gesture
Sense memory
Subtext
48. Information that is implied but not stated directly by a character; thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same meaning as the spoken words
Shared Position
articulation
Subtext
Focus
49. What is diaphragmatic breathing
Breathing using diaphram
Quality
Consonants are formed by articulators which are the jaw - lips - tongue - teeth - and soft palate.
Similarities - differences
50. _______ are the parts of the body that create consonant sounds.
Be heard by everyone -convey the character -convey character's emotions
Articulators
Open
Cross