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 2
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. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Hypokrites
Components of Production
Verse
2. Central character
Components of Actor's job
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Protagonist
Chorus
3. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Arena
Conflict
Aesthetic Distance
4. Body - voice - mind
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
5. When line of action suddenly switches
Downstage
Hypokrites
Reversal
Antagonist
6. Secondary line of action
Thespis
Subplot
Raked Stage
Henrik Ibsen
7. Seats 100-500; professional
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Scenic Designer
Copyright
Off-Broadway
8. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Realism
Protagonist
Raked Stage
9. Historical accuracy
Antiquarianism
Conflict
Blocking
Scenic Designer
10. Causal play structure. A ? B ? C
Linear Plot
Representational
Prose
Aristotle
11. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
12. A movement of the late 19th century championing the depiction of everyday life on the stage and the frank treatment of social problems in the theatre. The plays of Henrick Ibsen of the 1870s were important in establishing a dramatic style for realism
Auditions
Avant-Garde
Realism
Proscenium
13. Greatest dramatist of all time
Aeschylus
Off-Broadway
Black box
William Shakespeare
14. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Theatron
Dramaturg
Pageants
Aeschylus
15. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Front of House
Director
Costume plot
Components of Production
16. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Bertolt Brecht
Slapstick
Constantin Stanislavski
Thespis
17. First director
Director
Romantic Theory
Dialogue
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
18. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Actor's tools
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Verisimilitude
Components of Production
19. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience
Antagonist
Variables of costume design
Aesthetic Distance
Downstage
20. Directors who operate with total control
sound designer
Thespis
Auteur
Mystery Plays
21. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Subplot
Aristophanes
Vomitories
Stage Manager
22. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Proscenium
Romanticism
Scenic Designer
Raked Stage
23. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
University Wits
Aeschylus
Wings
Variables of costume design
24. Oversees the entire production crew - rehearsals & performance
Avant-Garde
Dialogue
Stage Manager
Miracle Plays
25. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Playwright
Catharsis
lighting designer
Perspective Scenery
26. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Prose
Upstage
Ground plan
Plato
27. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
28. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Downstage
Bertolt Brecht
Slapstick
Subplot
29. A drafting of the plan of the set as seen from overhead. A ground plan shows where any scenic pieces or set props (such as furniture) are to be placed
Liturgical Drama
Ground plan
Dionysus
Plato
30. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Downstage
Miracle Plays
Components of Production
31. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Presentational
Antiquarianism
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Arena
32. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Linear Plot
Types of professional theater
Broadway
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
33. Style of production that acknowledges theatricality and does not attempt to created the impression of 'real life' on the stage. Presentational scenery - costumes - and lighting may suggest - distort - or even abstract reality. Presentational acting m
Designer
Emile Zola
Off-off-Broadway
Presentational
34. Scenery
Alienation Effect
Musical Theatre
Eugene Scribe
Skene
35. Presentation style - external characteristics manipulated for desired effect - emphasis on vocal delivery
The Globe
collaborator
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristophanes
36. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Types of professional theater
Actor's tools
The Orestia
Thrust
37. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
Verisimilitude
Wings
Theatron
Book musical
38. Named after craftsmen. Had travelling players - masked performers - physical comedy - and stock characters
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
39. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Thrust
Concept
Copyright
Concept
40. Historical accuracy
Romantic Theory
Antiquarianism
Public Domain
University Wits
41. Creates a soundtrack to support the show. It may be recorded or live
Commedia Dell'Arte
Miracle Plays
Scenic Designer
sound designer
42. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
The Globe
Plato
Director
Proscenium
43. The actual meaning of dialogue behind the spoken words
Designer
Rhetorical Tradition
Theatron
Subtext
44. Handles business aspects of show
Reversal
Producer
Thrust
Black box
45. Handles business aspects of show
Aeschylus
The Globe
Costume Designer
Producer
46. Appearance of truth
Broadway
Verisimilitude
Stage manager
Verse
47. Action - place - time
collaborator
Scenic Designer
Stage manager
Neoclassic unities
48. God of wine and fertility
Book musical
Protagonist
Scenic Designer
Dionysus
49. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Linear Plot
Wings
Broadway
Eugene Scribe
50. Seats 100-500; professional
Eugene Scribe
Concept
Chorus
Off-Broadway