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HS Midterm Study Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which play did Arthur Miller write?

a)

Crimes of The Heart

b)

A Raisin in the Sun

c)

The Crucible

d)

The Time of Your Life

2.

What play did Tennessee Williams write?

a)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

b)

The Miss Firecracker Contest

c)

Our Town

d)

After The Fall

3.

What play did Thornton Wilder write?

a)

Night of the Iguana

b)

The Odd Couple

c)

Our Town

d)

All My Sons

4.

What is the oldest form of Easter Theatre?

a)

Dancing

b)

Pantomime

c)

Noh

d)

Bunraku

5.

A form of Japanese theatre which uses intricately hinged wooden puppets is called?

a)

Noh

b)

Opera

c)

Pantomime

d)

Bunraku

6.

In the early 20th Century, what overshadowed playwrights such as O'Neill and Wilder

a)

Singing

b)

Musical Theatre

c)

Film

d)

Dancing

7.

What is a samisen?

a)

Drums

b)

Flute

c)

Stringed instrument

d)

A Asian Piano

8.

Commedia dell'arte characters were what type of characters?

a)

Commedians

b)

Mimes

c)

Stock

d)

Serious

9.

During the Elizabethan Period, who was not allowed to act?

a)

Men

b)

Animals

c)

Rich women

d)

All Women

10.

Christopher Marlowe was credited with what two things?

a)

Blank Verse

b)

First Real English Comic

c)

Greatest English Dramatist till Shakespeare

d)

The Greatest Playwright Ever

11.

Which plays were written by William Shakespeare?

a)

King Lear

b)

Hamlet

c)

Love For Love

d)

All My Sons

12.

What playwright wrote the "one-hit wonder" She Stoops to Conquer?

a)

Oliver Goldsmith

b)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

c)

George Bernard Shaw

d)

William Wycherly

13.

Who wrote The Country Wife and is known for being a comic trendsetter in English Restoration?

a)

William Congreve

b)

William Wycherly

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Tennessee Williams

14.

What actor rebelled against the gender-biased Elizabethans by effectively portraying men's role?

a)

Saint Joan

b)

Queen Elizabeth

c)

Peg Woffington

d)

Olivia Goldsmith

15.

Who was the greatest actor of the English Restoration?

a)

William Wycherly

b)

Thomas Killigrew

c)

William Davenant

d)

David Garrick