Greek Theatre Test Review

The Greek festival honoring the god ________ was the most important arts festival in the ancient world.

• Dionysus
• Zeus
• Hera
• Hades

Combining theater, music, dance and community, the _____ day Spring festival of Dionysus in Athens was attended by people from all over Greece.

• One
• Two
• Three
• Six

The opening of the festival featured a procession to the Theater of _________ bearing a wooden statue of the god.

• Zeus
• Hera
• Hades
• Dionysus

As the first day of the festival of Dionysus progressed, choruses of men and boys representing the ____ political tribes of Athens held dithyrambic competitions. 

• 1
• 2
• 5
• 10

The first day of the Dionysian Festival concluded with the sacrifice of a _____ and a communal feast.

• antelope
• lion
• lamb
• bull

The most respected playwrights would present their works over the next three days: each would present three ______ and one _______ play (works that could be, but often weren't interrelated).

• Tragedies/Satyr
• Comedies/Satyr
• Satyrs/Tragedy
• Satyrs/ Comedy

In 487 BCE, an additional day of competition was added, with five playwrights presenting one ______ each.

• Dance
• Party
• Comedy
• Fight

In 534 BCE, the festival's first award was given to the actor and playwright ________.

• Thespis
• Hercules
• Philocetes
• Pegasus

________, an early form of Greek theater, were performed by choral groups of 50 men and 50 boys from the different Athenian tribes who would sing and chant the playwright's words in unison.

• Dithyrambs
• Actors
• Thespis
• Odyssey

The playwright _________ (524-455 BCE) standardized using a second actor.

• Thespis
• Sophocles
• Aeschylus
• Euripides