SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Theatre Appreciation
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. The Oresteia - only surviving Greek trilogy - added 2nd actor
Dialogue
Aeschylus
Postmodernism
William Shakespeare
2. Audience watches from 3 sides
Language
Aristophanes
Amateur Theatre
Thrust Space
3. 'Emotion over intellect' - made to assault the senses - developed by Antonin Artaud
Theatre of Cruelty
Printing Press
Avant-Garde
Tragedy
4. In ancient Greece - a stage house upstage from the circular orchestra
Upstage
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Skene
Community Theatre
5. Artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
Improv
Concept
Non-Profit Theatre
Plato
6. Based on the lives of the saints
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Goals That Define Verisimilitude
Chorus
Miracle Plays
Director
7. Serious and comedic qualities are mixed
Miracle Plays
Tragicomedy
Concept
Community Theatre
8. The person in charge of the artistic aspects of theatrical production
Director
Mimesis
Improv
Plato
9. Not many props or detailed scenery
Realism and Realistic Developments
Eugene Scribe
Thought
Renaissance
10. Two or more opposing forces working towards different goals
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Conflict
Hybrid Theatre
11. 'New Comedy' wrote The Grouch
Causal Play Structure
Tragicomedy
Meander
Printing Press
12. The period of work in which the show is made ready for the stage.
Rehearsal Process
Melodrama (def)
Inciting Incident
Hybrid Theatre
13. Shows that are produced to earn a profit for investors
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Bertolt Brecht
Commercial Theatre
Pageants
14. Performs Actions of the Play
Discovery
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Character
Morality Plays
15. 'Storm and stress'
Commedia Dell'Arte
Aristophanes
Comedy of Ideas
Sturm & Drang Movement
16. The recall of physical sensations surrounding emotional events
The Meaning of the Neoclassic Unities
Representational Acting
Pageants
Sense Memory
17. Physical comedy that became popular with the downslide of religious theatre
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
18. Part of What is included in the text
The Globe
Actor
Dialogue
Practical
19. Audience watches from 3 sides
Actor
Thrust Space
Components of Concept
Subtext
20. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Auditions
Comedy of Character
Plato
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
21. Rejection of neoclassicism -
Protagonist
Thought
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Emile Zola
22. Requires actors to call on personal memories of situations similar to those of their characters
The Box Set
Affective Memory
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Verisimilitude
23. The era we are currently in
Postmodernism
Romanticism & Romantic Theory
Comedy of Manners
Printing Press
24. Imitation of character and action
Language
Mimesis
Designer
Dialogue
25. Space can be manipulated to suit the production
Presentational Approach
Black Box
Avant-Garde
Practical
26. Plays with a moral message - good vs. evil
Morality Plays
Tragedy
Wings
Antagonist
27. Bottom of stage (closest to audience)
Henrik Ibsen
Downstage
Antiquarianism
Verisimilitude
28. Causes trouble for the main character
Antagonist
Non-Profit Theatre
Broadway
Hybrid Theatre
29. Evokes emotions of pity and fear - serious - ends unhappily
Tragedy
Rendering
Mimesis
Orchestra
30. Less than 100 people - experimental theatre - not exactly commercial
Off-Off-Broadway
Casting Director
Upstage
Representational Approach
31. England's type of theatre
Thespis
Chorus
Educational Theatre
The Globe
32. Audience observes from a similar viewpoint
Reversal
Upstage
Proscenium Space
Dramaturg
33. Professional - but all proceeds go back into the theatre - may require grants/donations
Exposition
Character
Non-Profit Theatre
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
34. Business aspect of theatre: House manager - box office manager - ushers
Practical
Printing Press
Public Domain
Front of House
35. 'Storm and stress'
Pageants
Sturm & Drang Movement
Proscenium Space
Dialogue
36. A>B>C>D
Pageants
Off-Off-Broadway
Representational Acting
The Progression of Elements in a Causal Play Structure
37. Grammatically based
Reversal
Prose
Improv
Chorus
38. Rebellion against melodrama and romanticism - more based on character's psychological journey - controversial subject matter
Character
Falling Action
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Realism and Realistic Developments
39. England's type of theatre
Sophocles
The Globe
Mimesis
The Three Ways in Which Information is Given About a Character
40. Occurs when something important is found - learned - or realized - during the action of the play
Neoclassicism (def)
Antiquarianism
Situation Comedy
Discovery
41. 19th century - action - thrillers - domestic stories of love and divorce
Melodrama
Stage Manager
Lazzi
Cycles
42. Units of action that build emotional intensity
Rising Action
Exposition
Meander
Orchestra
43. In ancient Greece - the audience seating area at floor level immediately in front of the stage
Producer
Catharsis
Renaissance
Orchestra
44. Wrote 'The Republic' about people who would be allowed in his society
Lazzi
Actor
Plato
Realism and Realistic Developments
45. Imitation of character and action
Mimesis
Commercial Theatre
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Hybrid Theatre
46. Top of stage
Process of Director/Designer Collaboration
Bertolt Brecht
Upstage
Protagonist
47. Grammatically based
Prose
Italian Contributions to Theatre During the Renaissance
Neoclassicism (def)
Ground Plan
48. The standard tool for casting a production
Auditions
Eugene Scribe
Emile Zola
Light Plot
49. An individual that aids the director in researching the play and its historical time period
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
Anton Chekhov
Antiquarianism
50. Scenery - costume - lighting - rhythm - movement - composition
Tragedy
Sturm & Drang Movement
Components of Concept
Conflict