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Acting Motivation
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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.
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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. Control in posture
poise
audition
keep open on stage while entering through doors
keeping open on stage while crossing
2. What your character wants
objective
your topping the line
Leading center
your dropping line
3. The people conducting the auditions
stage business
your dropping line
auditors
Status quo
4. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
cue line
Upstaging
fourth wall
monologue
5. How a character overcomes the obstacle
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
strategy
open
Status quo
6. Enter with your upstage foot
keep open on stage while entering
strategy
emotional memory
Upstaging
7. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
role
obstacle
Spiking the set
your dropping line
8. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
obstacle
Beats
subtext
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
9. To stand upstage of another actor on a proscenium stage forcing the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the actor - stealing the focus of the scene.
presentational style
Leading center
upstage
Sense memory
10. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
emotional memory
working rehearsal
stage business
transitions
11. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
keeping open on stage while crossing
pick up your cues
sense memory
cold reading
12. Information that is implied but not spoken - thoughts or actions
keeping open on stage while crossing
presentational style
subtext
Upstaging
13. A imaginary wall between the audience and the stage
keep open on stage while entering through doors
working rehearsal
subtext
fourth wall
14. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
role
keeping open on stage while turning
poise
Status quo
15. A complete reading of the play
subtext
callback
read through
keeping open on stage while turning
16. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
keeping open on stage while turning
auditors
read through
open
17. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
Status quo
keep open on stage while entering
Shared position
callback
18. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
keeping open on stage while crossing
callback
emotional memory
representational style
19. Auditioning with a script you have not read
cold reading
keep open on stage while entering through doors
focus
pick up your cues
20. Full front - or one quarter left or right
working rehearsal
Keeping open on stage while standing
stage business
auditors
21. Bridges between the beats
callback
keep open on stage while entering through doors
transitions
obstacle
22. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
open
emotional memory
obstacle
shared position
23. A complete reading of the play
Acting Generated emotion
read through
Shared position
cold reading
24. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
your dropping line
cue line
upstage
transitions
25. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
shared position
role
audition
objective
26. The intended point of interest on stage
motivation
focus
representational style
objective
27. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
master gesture
monologue
cast
sense memory
28. Where an actor mirrors another actors position
master gesture
Shared position
keep open on stage while entering through doors
strategy
29. What the character does
Acting Generated emotion
representational style
objective
action
30. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
status quo
monologue
Emotional Memory
your topping the line
31. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
Acting Generated emotion
presentational style
cast
read through
32. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
auditors
keep open on stage while entering through doors
master gesture
Upstaging
33. Positive attitude - good communication - ask before you change your physical appearance
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
representational style
upstage
cast
34. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
outcome
role
poise
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
35. What the character does
fourth wall
motivation
action
Keeping open on stage while standing
36. Open the door with your upstage hand
auditors
focus
keep open on stage while entering through doors
transitions
37. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
Leading center
upstage
Sense memory
Shared position
38. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
Shared position
master gesture
sense memory
Leading center
39. What is at risk
Emotional Memory
stakes
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
monologue
40. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
pick up your cues
emotional memory
presentational style
focus
41. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
open
Upstaging
stage business
Sense memory
42. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
callback
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
your topping the line
action
43. What is at risk
keep open on stage while entering through doors
stakes
cast
cue line
44. Using a one quarter to the person your talking to
your dropping line
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
monologue
your topping the line
45. A characters present circumstances
transitions
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Status quo
cast
46. Chosen for a role
auditors
open
Keeping open on stage while standing
cast
47. Forces the downstage actor to turn away from the audience to communicate with the upstage actor
keep open on stage while entering
Upstaging
subtext
upstage
48. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
your topping the line
focus
Spiking the set
audition
49. When you preform actions and they generate an emotion within yourself
outcome
Acting Generated emotion
leading center
presentational style
50. Say your lines quicker after your cue line
working rehearsal
subtext
Beats
pick up your cues