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Theatre Arts Midterm Review

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered the "Master of Comedy" in American theatre?

a)

William Wycherly

b)

William Congreve

c)

Thomas Killigrew

d)

George Farquhar

2.

What was the two purposes of the Greek Masks?

a)

For actors to look attractive to the audience

b)

For actors to feel more comfortable to act because then the audience wouldn't know who they were

c)

For one actor to be able to play several roles in one show

d)

They allowed men to play women's roles

3.

True or False, Egyptian performance used realistic battles and high ceremony to reenact their recorded three-day performance by l-Kher-Wofret of Abydos?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

True or false, the idea of stock characters influenced what we would refer to as type casting?

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What was the most famous contribution of the Italian Renaissance?

a)

Stage Development

b)

Commedia dell' arte

c)

Masks

d)

Pantomime

6.

What stock characters provided the main plot in Renaissance theatre?

a)

The Heroine's maidservants

b)

The Heroine's father and mother

c)

ll Capitano

d)

The young lovers

7.

ll Capitano is who in the Renaissance stock characters?

a)

The Heroine's lover

b)

The Heroine's maidservant

c)

The Heroine's father

d)

The Braggart soldier