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Chapter Seven

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following names are acceptable for this period?

a)

Elizabethan period

b)

early modern England

c)

English Renaissance

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

2.

The “university wits” included

a)

William Shakespeare and Thomas Norton

b)

Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd

c)

Ben Jonson and John Fletcher

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

3.

Which theatrical production element(s) used in English Renaissance drama allowed for fluid transfer of settings and times in the plays

a)

the neutral platform stage

b)

new audience configurations

c)

the proscenium

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

4.

Which of the following aspects made Shakespeare’s plays successful and enduring?

a)

exemplary episodic plots

b)

extraordinary verse and language

c)

well-rounded characters

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

5.

Theatre researchers consult primary sources, which are

a)

materials that survive from the period

b)

the first materials.

c)

materials that have no controversy surrounding them

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

6.

The primary sources researchers have about Elizabethan playhouses suggest

a)

the dimensions of the typical stage

b)

how tiring houses were used

c)

that there was not one, homogenous model of playhouse.

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

7.

Researchers analyze Elizabethan playhouses by

a)

considering how scenes in Shakespeare plays would have been staged

b)

looking at theatre excavations, drawings, and contracts

c)

considering lines in plays that seem to address the space

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

8.

Elizabethan drama changed locale between scenes by

a)

using elaborate scene changes

b)

using perspective-painting backdrops

c)

using “spoken décor

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

9.

Elizabethan theatre companies were organized under a sharing plan, which included

a)

shareholders, hirelings, and apprentices

b)

actors, directors, and playwrights

c)

patrons and press owners

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

10.

Feminist analysis of cross-dressing onstage in the era concludes that

a)

representation of females by males reinforced stereotypes of women

b)

cross-dressing allowed women to play leading male roles

c)

cross-dressing helped develop women’s roles

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above