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. Seats 100-500; professional
Upstage
Off-Broadway
Pageants
Dramaturg
2. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
The Orestia
Variables of costume design
Reversal
3. Physical commedy
Casting Director
Vomitories
Director
Slapstick
4. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Realism
Romanticism
Aesthetic Distance
Alienation Effect
5. Director champions intention of playwright
Presentational
collaborator
Off-off-Broadway
Subplot
6. 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
Plato
Blocking
Realism
Prose
7. 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
Black box
Upstage
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
8. Actor in 5th century Greece
Hypokrites
Components of Production
Antiquarianism
Designer
9. Seats 100-500; professional
Neoclassicism
Eugene Scribe
Off-Broadway
Costume Designer
10. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Variables of costume design
Constantin Stanislavski
William Shakespeare
Realism
11. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Prose
Aeschylus
Producer
Off-Broadway
12. A flexible performance space (usually small) in which the actor/audience configuration can be easily changed for each production
Black box
Callbacks
Variables of costume design
Hypokrites
13. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
Stage Manager
Variables of costume design
Auditions
Concept
14. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
15. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
Designer's job
Chorus
Aristotle
16. Secondary line of action
Subplot
Rhetorical Tradition
The Orestia
Reversal
17. Attributed to writing over 700 plays
Designer's job
Playwright
Eugene Scribe
Copyright
18. 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
19. To control the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
20. Spoken words
Perspective Scenery
Front of House
Dialogue
University Wits
21. Father of Epic theater - wanted people to think about what they were seeing - alienation effect.
Catharsis
Concept
Director
Bertolt Brecht
22. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Broadway
Director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Producer
23. First director
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
Actor's tools
Antagonist
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
24. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Wings
Plato
Designer's job
Auteur
25. A picture created by a designer to communicate with other production personnel
Rendering
Prose
Miracle Plays
Musical Theatre
26. Director champions intention of playwright
collaborator
Aristotle
Skene
Alienation Effect
27. 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
28. Emotional identification. Refers to audience participation
Director
Empathy
Antiquarianism
Realism
29. Theatre where Shakespeare's company of actors worked primarily
Linear Plot
Verisimilitude
Actor's tools
The Globe
30. created by Augest von Schegel - the replacement of neoclassical structure: form should be directed by subject matter - not classical precedent. Romantics were fascinated with natural forces - the unexplainable - gothic - and mystical. Romantics drama
Romantic Theory
Conflict
Public Domain
Hypokrites
31. The area farthest away from the audience
Aristotle
Upstage
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Auditions
32. A musical play that tells a story and has spoken words as well as songs
William Shakespeare
Book musical
Auditions
Auteur
33. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
34. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
Plato
Conflict
The Globe
Romantic Theory
35. Didn't support theater. Believed a convincing actor was harmful to society
lighting designer
Chorus
Plato
Cycles
36. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Musical Theatre
Thrust
Director
Components of Production
37. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Costume Designer
Theatron
The Orestia
38. Person in charge of artistic aspect of theater production
Director
Aesthetic Distance
Designer
Front of House
39. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Costume plot
Commedia Dell'Arte
Eugene Scribe
Costume Designer
40. Seats 500-1800; professional.
Broadway
Scenic Designer
Proscenium
Musical Theatre
41. Body (dance - martial arts) - voice (projection - articulation - breathing) - and mind (improve - script analysis - character development)
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
42. Creates a visual home for the play
Scenic Designer
Royalty
Wings
Copyright
43. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Arena
Designer
Neoclassicism
Variables of costume design
44. 'seeing place'
University Wits
Off-off-Broadway
Theatron
Callbacks
45. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Catharsis
Producer
Romantic Theory
46. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Chorus
Copyright
Black box
Proscenium
47. Was in favor of theater
Aristotle
Hypokrites
Orchestra
Antagonist
48. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Alienation Effect
Thrust
Blocking
49. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Theatron
Antiquarianism
Verse
50. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Liturgical Drama
Rhetorical Tradition
Auditions
Dialogue