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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. Where actors do not acknowledge the audience
cross
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
transitions
representational style
2. A characteristic gesture
Beats
Sense memory
representational style
master gesture
3. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
keeping open on stage while turning
Spiking the set
Beats
Upstaging
4. What part of the body you lead with
cue line
your topping the line
leading center
Shared position
5. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
keeping open on stage while turning
subtext
Beats
working rehearsal
6. A characteristic gesture
Spiking the set
keep open on stage while entering through doors
master gesture
shared position
7. Present circumstances
Spiking the set
your dropping line
status quo
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
8. Information that is implied but not directly stated by the actor- thoughts or actions of a character that do not express the same idea as the spoken words.
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
subtext
your topping the line
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
9. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
your topping the line
strategy
status quo
monologue
10. The people conducting the auditions
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
auditors
your dropping line
11. Open the door with your upstage hand
keep open on stage while entering through doors
poise
shared position
focus
12. Full front - or one quarter left or right
obstacle
stage business
Keeping open on stage while standing
your topping the line
13. A story - speech or scene performed by one actor only
Keeping open on stage while standing
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
keep open on stage while entering
monologue
14. What your character wants
read through
master gesture
objective
poise
15. Auditioning with a script you have not read
Keeping open on a proscenium stage while
cross
role
cold reading
16. What part of the body you lead with
Upstaging
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
keeping open on stage while turning
leading center
17. Interview for the play. make an impression and show talent
Leading center
audition
motivation
cast
18. Move right by moving with your right foot and vice versa with left
representational style
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
status quo
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
19. Bridges between the beats
Shared position
action
transitions
cue line
20. Enter with your upstage foot
auditors
role
keep open on stage while entering
focus
21. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
stage business
callback
your topping the line
role
22. Movements to strengthen the personality of the character
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
stage business
shared position
poise
23. Your voice gets quieter as you say your line
stakes
leading center
your dropping line
cue line
24. A position onstage where one actor mirrors another actor's body position
master gesture
shared position
Keeping open on stage while standing
your dropping line
25. A complete reading of the play
read through
action
obstacle
outcome
26. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
read through
transitions
Spiking the set
Leading center
27. The part of a characters's body that leads in movements - and reflects the nature of the character
auditors
fourth wall
fourth wall
Leading center
28. Bridges between the beats
Sense memory
status quo
transitions
master gesture
29. A final line that signals an actor to begin the next speech
obstacle
cue line
cross
your dropping line
30. Chosen for a role
status quo
Leading center
cast
Keeping open on stage while standing
31. The intended point of interest on stage
transitions
audition
sense memory
focus
32. Your saying the line louder than the person before you
your topping the line
Leading center
shared position
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
33. A characters present circumstances
Status quo
stakes
emotional memory
representational style
34. What makes a character do something
stakes
cross
motivation
Shared position
35. Auditioning with a script you have not read
Beats
keep open on stage while entering
outcome
cold reading
36. Memories of sights - sounds - smells - tastes and textures - used to define a character
outcome
keep open on stage while entering through doors
Sense memory
auditors
37. To keep your face and the front of your body as visible to the audience as much as possible
keeping open on stage while crossing
open
emotional memory
your topping the line
38. To move from one place to another on stage
auditors
cross
presentational style
Acting Generated emotion
39. Part in a play
cue line
role
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
working rehearsal
40. How a character overcomes the obstacle
monologue
status quo
Status quo
strategy
41. Present circumstances
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
your dropping line
obstacle
status quo
42. Using your own memories to help understand a characters emotions
Keeping open on stage while moving left or right
Spiking the set
presentational style
Emotional Memory
43. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
presentational style
action
sense memory
outcome
44. Calling upon memories of your own emotions to understand the emotions of a character
emotional memory
3 ways to have a positive relationship with your director
Shared position
cold reading
45. Being asked to come back and see the auditors again
auditors
callback
Beats
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
46. Turn in the direction of your downstage hand
keeping open on stage while turning
stage business
shared position
subtext
47. Result of action the characters take to overcome the obstacle
monologue
Acting Generated emotion
Status quo
outcome
48. Make crosses upstage in an upward arc
Keeping open on stage while gesturing
keeping open on stage while crossing
Status quo
keeping open on stage while turning
49. To mark the floor of the rehearsal space to show the floor plan for the play
Spiking the set
pick up your cues
sense memory
your dropping line
50. Smaller sections of a scene divided where shifts in emotion or topic occur
Beats
Upstaging
Spiking the set
cue line