Ancient Greek Theater

What area is shown in red?

• Orchestra
• Parados
• Skene
• Theatron

Who was the first actor?

• Dionysus
• Thespis
• Satyr
• Dithyramb

What part of the Greek theatre is labeled with the blank box?

• Skene
• Theatron
• Parados
• Orchestra

What was Deus ex Machina?

• God out of the machine- when the hero was in danger, a god would be lowered in a crane to solve the problem.
• A stage device involving a trap door for appearing and disappearing
• An Athenian acting troupe
• Latin words that have nothing to do with the Greeks

The ______________ was a group of 15 and acted as one character.

• actors
• heroes
• chorus
• choir

Who were the three major Greek playwrights?

• Euripides, Oedipus Rex, Prometheus 
• Thespis, Euripides, Stavros
• Euripides, Thespis, Sophocles
• Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus

Dionysus is the Greek God of what?

• Wine
• Fertility
• Theatre
• All of the Above

What types of plays did the Greeks perform?

• Histories and Myths
• Dramas, Theories, and Situations
• Tragedies, Satyrs, and Comedies
• None of these

A catharsis is

• a release of emotional tension
• a litter of kittens
• a group of actors
• where Demeter lives

The Ancient Greeks used masks because...

• Masks allowed a small number of actors to play a large number of roles
• Masks made it easier for the audience to see an actor's facial expression from far away
• Masks helped to make the actors more easily heard
• All of the above