APEH - Different Western Classical Plays and Opera Quiz

Actors wore masks called "______" to

represent different characters and emotions.

• Mascara

• Prosopon

• Masquerade Ball Masks

• Face Mask

"______" wrote 123 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form.

• Francisco Balagtas

• Ma'am Dionisio

• Dr. Jose Rizal

• Sophocles

"Father of the Tagalog Zarzuela“

• Severino Reyes

• Salvador F. Bernal

• Dr. Ricardo G. Abad

• Jose Dela Cruz

Sophocles has two famous tragedies,

what is the title of these two plays or operas?

• Tyrannosaurus rex

• Antigone

• Oedipus Rex

• Baygon(e)

 "______" a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.

• Romeo and Juliet

• Florante at Laura

• Alden and Yaya Dub

• Cupid and Psyche

 Dr. Ricardo G. Abad graduated at the Ateneo de Manila, after which he obtained a Fulbright grant to finish a doctorate in sociology at ______.

• Syracuse University in New York.

• Cornell University in New York.

• Fordham University

  in New York.

• University of Rochester in New York

These are the works and plays of Sophocles;

what does NOT belong in the group?

• The Women of Trachis

• Il Trovatore

• Oedipus at Colonus

• Philoctetes

What quote describes OEDIPUS REX of SOPHOCLES?

Hint: Starts with W and ends with N :)

(Caps Lock)

Antigone is the sister of three siblings. Who are they?

• Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene.

•  Creon, Jocasta, and Ismene.

• Polynices, Jocasta, and Ismene.

• Ismene, Polynices, and Colonus

Shakespeare married ______ when he was __ years old, and she was 26. They had three children together.

• Anne Hathaway,

  21 years old

• Susanna Hall,

  18 years old

• Anne Hathaway,

  18 years old

• Joan Hathaway,

  21 years old