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Directing Plays
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 21 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. The most important event that happened in the background story
Conflicts
Primary Event
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
2. Trusting too much in the opinions of others.
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Simple and Complex Plots
Secondhand Thinking
Affective Fallacy
3. Using the same explanation for everything.
Affective Fallacy
Imitative fallacy
Frigidity
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
4. Focusing on what the play reminds you of rather than what the play says
Literal-Mindedness
Affective Fallacy
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Biographical Fallacy
5. Seeking only to imitate rather than illuminate.
Imitative fallacy
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Relativist Fallacy
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
6. The event that disrupts forever the normal lives of the characters in the play.
Secondhand Thinking
Intentional Fallacy
Inciting Action
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
7. The opposition the characters face as they try to reach their goals and objectives
Point of Attack
Conflicts
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
Intentional Fallacy
8. Envisioning the play only as it has been done before.
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Affective Fallacy
Resolution
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
9. Referring to whether or not a play utilizes recognitions and reversals
Biographical Fallacy
Simple and Complex Plots
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Climaxes
10. Aspects of the play that modify its climaxes
Inciting Action
Literal-Mindedness
Secondhand Thinking
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
11. All points of view are equally valid. Opinion trumps diligent study and practice.
Relativist Fallacy
Point of Attack
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Imitative fallacy
12. Refers to where the inciting event occurs in relation to the entirety of the play
Point of Attack
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Simple and Complex Plots
13. Seeking only to determine what the playwright meant.
Simple and Complex Plots
Biographical Fallacy
Intentional Fallacy
Point of Attack
14. Worrying more about the origins of a play - its place in history - or the world of the playwright than what the play says about itself.
Genetic Fallacy
Simple and Complex Plots
Resolution
Conflicts
15. The most dramatic and memorable moments of the play
Literal-Mindedness
Biographical Fallacy
Climaxes
Relativist Fallacy
16. Seeing the play as only a reflection of the life of the author
Recognitions - Reversals - and Catastrophe
Biographical Fallacy
Primary Event
Affective Fallacy
17. The events that follow the main climax of the play
Affective Fallacy
Imitative fallacy
Resolution
Secondhand Thinking
18. Lacking empathy. Not understanding the real human cost explored in the play.
Inciting Action
Frigidity
Secondhand Thinking
Over-reliance on Stage Directions
19. Everyday reality is irrelevant to understanding a play as an artistic experience.
Literal-Mindedness
Intentional Fallacy
Resolution
Fallacy of the Half-Truth
20. Reducing complex issues down to one thing. The use of statments like - 'This play is nothing but a...'
Fallacy of Illicit Process
Conflicts
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Primary Event
21. Using the words 'all' or 'never' to explain a play. Jumping to a conclusion without examining all the supporting evidence.
Genetic Fallacy
Fallacy of Faulty Generalization
Literal-Mindedness
Fallacy of the Half-Truth