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. An actor/audience configuration in which the audience is on 3 sides of the performance area. (maybe theatre)
Thrust
Theatron
Emile Zola
Costume plot
2. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Arena
Sense memory
The Globe
Alienation Effect
3. : a specialist in finding actors for specific roles who assists the director in some professional productions
Realism
Subplot
Casting Director
Rhetorical Tradition
4. Director champions intention of playwright
Vomitories
Proscenium
collaborator
Producer
5. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Director
Aeschylus
University Wits
6. 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
7. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Sense memory
Producer
Stage manager
Downstage
8. Handles business aspects of show
Producer
Prose
Avant-Garde
Verse
9. Invented by the Italians - a large open arch that marks the primary division between audience and performance space in a proscenium space. The proscenium arch frames the action of the play for the audience and limits the view of backstage areas
Proscenium
Bertolt Brecht
Auteur
Auditions
10. Passageways located underneath the seating that generally give access to the stage. (there are some in Maybee theatre
Rendering
Copyright
Vomitories
Pageants
11. 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
12. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Plato
Aristophanes
Chorus
Costume plot
13. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Costume plot
Catharsis
Actor's tools
Alienation Effect
14. Scenery
Skene
Constantin Stanislavski
Director
Perspective Scenery
15. A group of performers working together vocally and physically. A chorus of approximately 12-15 singer-dancers who interacted with and responded to the actors was an important element of ancient Greek theatre.
Chorus
Stage Manager
Wings
Types of professional theater
16. Creates a visual home for the play
sound designer
Alienation Effect
Scenic Designer
Eugene Scribe
17. 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
18. Silhouette (overall shape) - color - texture - accent
William Shakespeare
Variables of costume design
Stage Manager
Bertolt Brecht
19. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Subplot
Thrust
Neoclassicism
Copyright
20. Humanity's struggle with good and evil
Morality Plays
Rhetorical Tradition
Pageants
Chorus
21. Controls the environment in the theatre - influence audience's emotional involvement - and communicate information (time and place).
Variables of costume design
Components of Actor's job
Designer
Producer
22. First director
Producer
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Actor's tools
Upstage
23. Written by Aeschylus. Only surviving trilogy
The Orestia
Costume Designer
Auteur
Director
24. Convincing actors were too powerful a tool of persuasion
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
25. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Alienation Effect
Avant-Garde
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
26. Sentences/paragraph structure
Stage Manager
Rhetorical Tradition
Prose
Theatron
27. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Vomitories
Prose
Front of House
Slapstick
28. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Variables of costume design
Off-off-Broadway
Callbacks
Romantic Theory
29. Recognize plays as intellectual property of playwright
Sense memory
Musical Theatre
Copyright
Vomitories
30. An actor/ audience configuration in which the audience is on only one side of the performance area; all audience members face the same direction.
The Orestia
Proscenium
Perspective Scenery
Callbacks
31. Usher. Shows people to seats - checks tickets
Linear Plot
Emile Zola
Front of House
Verse
32. Designs costumes for the show
Chorus
Costume Designer
Pageants
Morality Plays
33. Spoken words
Avant-Garde
Pageants
Arena
Dialogue
34. Planned actor movement
Eugene Scribe
Vomitories
Blocking
Proscenium
35. Was in favor of theater
Designer
Subplot
Aristotle
Subplot
36. 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
The Globe
Thrust
Presentational
sound designer
37. Called for naturalism - claiming that plays should show a 'slice of life'
Costume plot
Director
Chorus
Emile Zola
38. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Theatron
Book musical
Mystery Plays
Variables of costume design
39. Fee for each performance
Arena
Royalty
Casting Director
Slapstick
40. Work developed actors in realism and naturalism
Constantin Stanislavski
Downstage
Dramaturg
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
41. 'dancing space'
Musical Theatre
Presentational
Upstage
Orchestra
42. Idea/script - sets - lights - costumes - props - performers
Protagonist
Components of Production
Aesthetic Distance
Dramaturg
43. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Proscenium
Rhetorical Tradition
Aristotle
Aristophanes
44. Who or what opposes the central character
Antagonist
Slapstick
Variables of costume design
sound designer
45. Designs costumes for the show
Costume Designer
Avant-Garde
Presentational
Dialogue
46. Creates a visual home for the play
Empathy
Variables of costume design
Aesthetic Distance
Scenic Designer
47. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Ground plan
Dramaturg
Casting Director
Thrust
48. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
University Wits
Callbacks
Romanticism
Conflict
49. Oversees artistic aspects of show
Director
collaborator
Stage manager
Front of House
50. Fee for each performance
Stage Manager
Neoclassic unities
Proscenium
Royalty
Sorry!:) No result found.
Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?
Let me suggest you:
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests
Major Subjects
Tests & Exams
AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT
Certifications
CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/
PMP
ITIL
RHCE
MCTS
More...
IT Skills
Android Programming
Data Modeling
Objective C Programming
Basic Python Programming
Adobe Illustrator
More...
Business Skills
Advertising Techniques
Business Accounting Basics
Business Strategy
Human Resource Management
Marketing Basics
More...
Soft Skills
Body Language
People Skills
Public Speaking
Persuasion
Job Hunting And Resumes
More...
Vocabulary
GRE Vocab
SAT Vocab
TOEFL Essential Vocab
Basic English Words For All
Global Words You Should Know
Business English
More...
Languages
AP German Vocab
AP Latin Vocab
SAT Subject Test: French
Italian Survival
Norwegian Survival
More...
Engineering
Audio Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Structural Engineering
More...
Health Sciences
Basic Nursing Skills
Health Science Language Fundamentals
Veterinary Technology Medical Language
Cardiology
Clinical Surgery
More...
English
Grammar Fundamentals
Literary And Rhetorical Vocab
Elements Of Style Vocab
Introduction To English Major
Complete Advanced Sentences
Literature
Homonyms
More...
Math
Algebra Formulas
Basic Arithmetic: Measurements
Metric Conversions
Geometric Properties
Important Math Facts
Number Sense Vocab
Business Math
More...
Other Major Subjects
Science
Economics
History
Law
Performing-arts
Cooking
Logic & Reasoning
Trivia
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests