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. The actors recall of sights - sounds - touch - and smell from specific past events.
Sense memory
Playwright
Theatron
Alienation Effect
2. 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
Scenic Designer
Auditions
lighting designer
3. Purgation of pity and fear experienced upon watching theater.
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Variables of costume design
Dionysus
Catharsis
4. Central character
Protagonist
Skene
Public Domain
Hypokrites
5. Helps establish mood - place - & intensity with the use of light
lighting designer
Vomitories
Dramaturg
Off-Broadway
6. Author of play
Playwright
Reversal
Off-Broadway
Miracle Plays
7. Bertolt Brecht; wanted audience to think about what they were seeing rather than blindly feel. Accomplished by interrupting dramatic moments.
Broadway
Aeschylus
Verisimilitude
Alienation Effect
8. God of wine and fertility
Alienation Effect
Dionysus
William Shakespeare
The Orestia
9. 'dancing space'
Stage Manager
Orchestra
Melodrama
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
10. A movement that rejected nearly every aspect of neoclassicism - celebrated the natural world - and valued intense emotion and individuality.
Reversal
Eugene Scribe
Romanticism
Auteur
11. Movement based on study of ancient Greek and Roman culture
Verisimilitude
Reversal
Plato
Neoclassicism
12. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Orchestra
Neoclassic unities
Rhetorical Tradition
Callbacks
13. Plays performed by the clergy in latin as part of the worship service in Christian monasteries and cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
Neoclassicism
Scenic Designer
Liturgical Drama
Commedia Dell'Arte
14. Standard tool for casting productions
Eugene Scribe
Auditions
Royalty
Copyright
15. 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
William Shakespeare
Subplot
Neoclassicism
16. Art that pushes recognized boundaries
Designer's job
Avant-Garde
Director
Broadway
17. Greatest dramatist of all time
Auteur
sound designer
William Shakespeare
Stage Manager
18. Action - place - time
Neoclassic unities
Playwright
Conflict
Rhetorical Tradition
19. The stage area closest to the audience; on the raked stage of the Renaissance theatres - the stage literally sloped downward as it got closer to the audience
Downstage
Stage manager
Subplot
Early Church's reasons for distaining theatre
20. Changeable scenery for specific plays (tragedies - comedies - pastoral tragicomedies). Appeared as early as 1508 and standardized approaches to such scenery were popularized by Sebastian Serlio. Ex: Wings - flats
Perspective Scenery
Blocking
collaborator
Designer's job
21. The area farthest away from the audience
Aristotle's Six Elements of a Play
Upstage
Components of Production
Off-Broadway
22. 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
23. A chart that records items of clothing worn by each actor in each scene of the play
Theatron
Costume plot
Slapstick
Downstage
24. In a proscenium theatre - spaces offstage left and right for actors - crew - and scenery not yet in the visible performance space
Producer
Variables of costume design
Wings
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
25. The area farthest away from the audience
Realism
Upstage
Aristophanes
Antagonist
26. When line of action suddenly switches
Reversal
Empathy
Orchestra
Proscenium
27. Set at an angle. Early proscenium theatres featured a raked stage: the stage was elevated much higher at the back of the stage (upstage) than closer to the stage (downstage). Modern designers sometimes build a raked stage for a particular production
Conflict
Raked Stage
Designer's job
Cycles
28. In charge of communication and call cues. 'Busiest person in theater.'
Stage manager
Components of Production
Off-off-Broadway
Royalty
29. Second round of auditions to which specific actors are invited
Concept
Stage manager
Director
Callbacks
30. Biblical stories. From word Misterium meaning crafts/guild
Constantin Stanislavski
Aesthetic Distance
Neoclassic unities
Mystery Plays
31. Psychological separation - or a sense of detachment; the recognition that what happens on stage is not reality; literally - 'the distance of art'
Representational
Aesthetic Distance
Aeschylus
Morality Plays
32. Plot - character - thought - language - music - spectacle
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
33. Body - voice - mind
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
34. First director
Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Dionysus
Presentational
Thrust
35. Push idea of reality - morality - and universality
Neoclassic goals defining verisimilitude
Concept
Empathy
Dramaturg
36. Group of influential - educated Renaissance playwrights
Miracle Plays
University Wits
Costume plot
Concept
37. Appearance of truth
Verisimilitude
Liturgical Drama
Romantic Theory
Designer
38. Sentences/paragraph structure
Antiquarianism
Prose
Plato
Royalty
39. Wrote the Orestia which is the only surviving trilogy
Aeschylus
Public Domain
Aristotle
Mystery Plays
40. Directors who operate with total control
Thrust
Auteur
Romanticism
Public Domain
41. 'old comedy'. Lewd humor - attacks on government
Stage manager
Dionysus
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
42. A specialist in dramatic literature and theatre history who serves as a consultant for production
Dramaturg
Representational
Variables of costume design
Henrik Ibsen
43. Seats 100-500; professional
Dionysus
Slapstick
Off-Broadway
Conflict
44. The most popular form of performance in the 20th century
Empathy
Orchestra
Musical Theatre
Presentational
45. 'seeing place'
Theatron
Upstage
Catharsis
Slapstick
46. Pioneer of realism who challenged audiences to face their personal demons
University Wits
Stage Manager
Henrik Ibsen
Casting Director
47. Historical accuracy
Aristotle
Antiquarianism
Black box
Director
48. Author of play
Eugene Scribe
Callbacks
Playwright
Blocking
49. The central element of causal plot; two forces working against each other
Types of professional theater
Linear Plot
Conflict
Romanticism
50. Commercial (meant to make profit). Non-profit (profits go to production of future plays. May be professional or amateur.)
Subtext
Types of professional theater
Mystery Plays
Raked Stage
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