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Questioned by Oedipus, the messenger also reveals that
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Polybus and Merope are not Oedipus's real mother and father
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The herdsman summoned by Oedipus already knows that
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Oedipus killed Laius
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The prophet Teiresias, when asked by Oedipus to help rescue the city,
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is very reluctant to cooperate
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After Jocasta reemerges from the palace and prays to Apollo for deliverance, a messenger from Corinth arrives. What news does he bring?
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Oedipus must go into exile.
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Creon brings from Apollos oracle the information that the plague has been caused by
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the unpunished killing of King Laius
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At the beginning of the play, what step has Oedipus already taken to deal with the plague?
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sending Creon to the oracle at Delphi
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As a result of his conversation with Teiresias, Oedipus concludes that
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Creon is plotting, with Teiresias's help, to overthrow him
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Jocasta tries to assure Oedipus that he is not guilty of Laiuss death by stating that
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Laius was killed by robbers at a place where three roads meet
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Creon tries to prove his innocence to Oedipus by arguing that
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he has all the benefits of kingship without any of the responsibilities
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Oedipuss reaction to Jocastas speech is
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horror at the thought that he himself may be Laius's killer
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Which of the following does Wilson state is at the heart of the theatre experience?
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the performer-audience relationship
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The term for the separation between an audience and a work of art is known as
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aesthetic distance
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Wilson states that theatre has a special nature that helps it survive in todays world of film and television. While there are many factors that contribute to theatres survival, the most important is, perhaps, the fact that theatre is
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current
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Theatre in which the audience gets involved directly is known as
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participatory theatre
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Which of the following best defines the theatrical device known as a flashback?
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a scene in which there are abrupt movements from the present to the past and back again
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Of the following, which best describes a theatre critic?
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someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it
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Even though a critic makes an unequivocal judgment about a production, the audience may not agree. Wilson describes this phenomenon as the
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audience’s independent judgment
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Of the following, which best describes a critic?
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someone who usually works for a magazine or journal and attempts to give detailed descriptions and analyses of theatre productions based on an extensive knowledge of theatre
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What does it mean to criticize a piece of theatre?
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to understand and appraise
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Of the following, which best describes a reviewer?
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someone who usually works for a newspaper, radio, or TV, has limited theatre knowledge, and describes whether or not a production is worth seeing
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Examine the following list; who was not only a playwright but also a famous theatre critic?
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George Bernard Shaw
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What production by the Performance Group in New York City, described by Wilson, controlled the audience’s introduction to the play by making them wait in line outside the theatre before the performance?
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Dionysus in 69
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Which of the following stages was influenced by the ideas of Jerzy Grotowski and Antonin Artaud?
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created or found stage
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Which of the following stages is the most widely used of all the stage spaces?
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thrust stage
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Which of the following stages was made most popular by Broadway theatres?
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proscenium stage
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The theatre space, also known as a picture-frame stage, in which the audience is separated from the stage by a framing arch is known as a(n)
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proscenium stage
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The practice of using the space to fit the play rather than making the play fit the space is indicative of what type of theatrical space?
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adapted
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Which of the following stages helps to create an intimate, unconscious communion between the audience and performers?
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arena stage
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Which of the following types of performances were not always performed in an arena-theatre arrangement?
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productions designed by Giacomo Torelli using a counterweight system
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Which of the following is not a type of theatre space?
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epic stage
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is an example of what kind of theatre space?
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Thrust
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Guerilla theatre is usually performed in what kind of theatre space?
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street
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The theatre space in which the audience sits on three sides of the stage is known as a(n)
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thrust stage
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What are the two categories of roles used in role playing?
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social and personal
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According to Wilson, children are particularly effective at which type of daily life acting?
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imitation
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Of the following, which is an important difference between acting in everyday life and acting on the stage?
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all of the above
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The acting style of the Elizabethan period was characterized by
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exaggerated style and gestures
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Which of the following did not have an effect on the actor’s voice in classical acting?
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the use of prose in the plays
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During which historical theatrical period were actors not considered socially unacceptable?
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ancient Greece
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What are two common forms of acting in daily life?
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imitation and role playing
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What play does Wilson use to illustrate role playing in drama?
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Death of a Salesman
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According to Wilson, who or what serves as the direct, immediate contact that the audience has with the theatre?
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the performers
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In the Stanislavski system, what is referred to as the situation in which a character exists?
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the given circumstances
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Actors try out for a role in a production through a process known as
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auditioning
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When an actor gets a part, what is the first task in the acting process?
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to read and analyze the script
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To be heard in a large theatre, a performer must learn what voice technique?
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projection
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Which of the following best describes the “superobjective”?
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what the character wants above all else in the play
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Of the following, who revolutionized the process of realistic acting as well as the training of actors?
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Constantin Stanislavski
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The idea of seeing actions lead to emotions rather than the other way around was what Stanislavski called
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psychophysical action
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Of the following, who is not an important name in actor training in the United States?
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Charles Marowitz
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In the Stanislavski system, what is referred to as the way in which a performer can transform his or her thoughts and imagine him- or herself in virtually any situation?
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the "magic if"
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A director who significantly alters and transforms the scripted material in order to shape every aspect of a production and who believes that the text should serve his or her purposes is known as a(n)
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auteur director
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The term “casting” refers to which of the following?
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the choosing of actors
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Which of the following best describes the role of the theatre director?
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a person who works most closely with the actors, collaborates with designers, and serves to unify a production
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When all of the elements of a production come together to simulate an actual performance, it is known as
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dress rehearsal
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As it relates to directing, what is “visual composition”?
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the physical arrangement of the performers onstage
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The first person to be officially called a director in 1874 was
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Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
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Which of the following filled the role of the modern director in England, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries?
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actor-managers
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Which of the following best defines the idea of the director’s concept?
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the controlling or central vision that unifies a production
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Which of the following does Wilson describe as “the arrangement of events or the selection and order of scenes in a play”?
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plot
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What is the primary subject matter of theatre?
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human beings
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Of the following, which is not part of the playwright’s job description?
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securing a performance space
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The final and most significant crisis is referred to as the
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climax
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The “rules of the game” in theatre are better known as
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conventions
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What is the subject and verb of drama?
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people and action
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Which of the following does Wilson describe as “a full account of an event, or series of events, usually told in chronological order”?
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story
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Which two historical periods glorify humanity while exposing the cruelty of life simultaneously, creating the ideal situation for writing tragedy?
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the Greek golden age and the Renaissance
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The “crucible of drama” is
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conflict
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Coronations, weddings, and funerals are examples of what sort of structure?
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ritual
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Which of the following structures is best illustrated by the plays of William Shakespeare?
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episodic
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of climactic structure?
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There may be several parallel plots and numerous subplots.
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Which of the following is “a repetition or reenactment of a proceeding or transaction which has acquired special meaning”?
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ritual
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What does Wilson describe as “a repeated sequence of events containing its own order and logic”?
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pattern
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Which of the following is considered a significant period of episodic structure?
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England, late sixteenth, early seventeenth centuries
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of episodic structure?
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The construction is tight.
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“A static scene onstage featuring performers in costume” is known as a
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tableau
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Which of the following structures was used in fifth-century Greece and reemerged in France in the seventeenth century and in Norway in the nineteenth century?
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climactic
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Which of the following is not described by Wilson as a significant departure from traditional theatre practice?
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none of these
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Of the character types below, which type is described as being “larger than life”?
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extraordinary
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Blanche DuBois is a famous dramatic character is which play?
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Of the character types below, which type is described as exemplifying “one characteristic to the exclusion of virtually everything else”?
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stock
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Of the character types below, which type is described as representing one “humor”?
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characters with a dominant trait
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Of the character types below, which type is described as “typical or ordinary”?
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quintessential or representative
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The main character in a play and his or her chief opponent are known as
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protagonist and antagonist
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True of False? Menander was known for creating nonhuman characters in ancient Greek drama.
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true
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Playwrights sometimes introduce a secondary character who may serve as a foil or counterpart to the main character. This best describes which of the following character types?
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contrasting character
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Of the following character types, which type is written specifically to speak directly to the audience?
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narrator
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Of the following, which best describes the role of minor characters?
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characters who play a small part in the overall action
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Movies use characteristics of melodrama. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the form?
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the main character is never placed in danger
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An early domestic drama was
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The London Merchant by George Lillo
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What is one characteristic that distinguishes modern tragedy from traditional tragedy?
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the use of the common man rather than royalty or nobility as the main characters
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Along with tragedy, other forms of serious drama include
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heroic drama, domestic drama, and melodrama
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One of the best examples of heroic drama is by Edmond Rostand entitled
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Which form of tragedy or serious drama was predominant in the twentieth century?
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domestic drama
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Of the following, what does tragedy attempt to do?
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ask basic questions about human existence
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Heroic drama differs from tragedy in two ways. The first is in having a happy ending. The second is
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assuming a basically optimistic worldview even when the ending is sad
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Modern tragedy began
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in the late nineteenth century
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Of the following, who wrote the play Tartuffe, which serves as a good example of the contrast between the social order and the individual?
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Molière
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True of False? An idea or concept that turns the accepted notion of things upside down and becomes the basis of the play is also known as the comic premise.
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true
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It is common in comedy that actions do not have the consequences that they do in real life. This characteristic is known as
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suspension of natural laws
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True of False? Bedroom farce is a form of comedy that uses stock characters and characters with dominant traits.
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true
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A word that sounds like the right word but means something quite different is known as
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a malaprop
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Comedy is created when the basic assumptions about society and the characters and events of the play
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clash or cut against each other
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Which Greek play by Aristophanes uses the comic premise that women can withhold sex to keep men from going to war?
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Lysistrata
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Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?
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strong emphasis on suspense
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One of the arguments against modern tragedy focuses on
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the inability of prose to articulate the lofty concerns of tragedy
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Which of the following is not a part of the scene designer’s process?
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plots
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A bird’s eye view of the stage space showing all the furniture and set pieces in location is called
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a ground plan
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True of False? The crafts artist translates the look of the models, renderings, and paint elevations into full-scale paintings of the design.
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false; that is the task of the scenic charge artist and scenic artists
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What is the first step in any design process?
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reading the script
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Which of the following is not an element of design?
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symmetry
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Of the following, which do bustles and corsets affect?
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silhouette
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Which of the following is NOT an accessory?
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wig
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Of the following, which invention helped the most with quick changes?
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Velcro
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Of the following, which is not a requirement of costume design?
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establish the spatial environment onstage
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Amongst the other designers, whom does the costume designer need to work particularly closely with?
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lighting designer
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Which of the following is not an element or material for scenic design?
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ellipsoidals
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True of False? Costumes can help actors and actresses to create their parts.
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True
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In the second half of the twentieth century, three branches of theatre emerged in Japan. Which of the following is not a branch that has emerged?
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Grotowski’s “poor theatre”
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There have been several influences on theatre in English-speaking Africa. Of the following, which has not been an influence?
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television and film
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Which of the following theoretical works was written by the renowned Brazilian playwright, director, and theorist Augusto Boal? (The work serves as a manifesto for revolutionary and socially conscious theatre.)
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Theatre of the Oppressed
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Of the following, which was at the heart of the works by South African playwright Athol Fugard?
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concern for political and social equality
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Which of the following is likely not a topic of political theatre?
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gun rights
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In some ways, theatre in America is stronger today than at any time in its history. Which of the following is not a reason?
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American theatres are only producing plays by English-speaking playwrights.
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Of the following, which Western theatre forms influenced theatre in Asia?
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realism and departures from realism
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Which of the following is not a type of microphone used in theatrical sound design?
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pencil mike
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Which musical form had its beginnings in Italy around 1600?
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opera
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In 1927, the landmark musical Show Boat opened. The controversial musical featured an interracial romance and eliminated the chorus line of girls that had always been considered indispensable. The team that created the musical is
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Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
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Of the following, which production is typically seen as marking the beginning of the “golden era” of the American musical?
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Oklahoma!
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Of the following, which type of performance is defined as a drama that features a romantic story set in a far-off locale with little basis in everyday life? Although the majority of the drama is set to music, some portions are spoken by performers.
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operetta
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When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a
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concept musical
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Which of the following periods was considered to be the “golden era” of the American musical?
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the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s
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Of the following musicals, which is not connected to Andrew Lloyd Webber?
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Les Misérables
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Which 2004 musical featured puppets?
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Avenue Q
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Of the following, which type of performance presents sketches and vignettes alternating with musical numbers? With no single storyline, this form sometimes revolves around a common theme rather than a traditional plot.
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revue
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True of False? Spiderwoman Theatre is categorized as both a Native American theatre company and a feminist theatre company.
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True
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A play that presented actual women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability, and sexual affirmation was
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The Vagina Monologues
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Which African American playwright won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama?
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Suzan-Lori Parks
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Unlike in Britain and numerous European countries, in the United States, there is a long tradition of significant support for theatre from the government.
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False
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In 1968, which play brought gay life to the forefront, sparking the gay and lesbian movement?
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The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
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Which of the following is a famous postmodernist theatre group?
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the Wooster Group
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Of the following, which 1970s production served as a milestone in the history of Hispanic theatre?
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Zoot Suit
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Which theatre company is heavily associated with Chicano theatre and the civil rights movements of the 1960s?
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El Teatro Campesino
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Which modern musical sparked the protest of Asian American theatre artists over its casting practices?
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M. Butterfly
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