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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 17mins
A morality play is a play that
Teaches the stories of the bible
Teaches the stories of the saints
Teaches the lessons of how to live as a Christian
The Greeks started theatre to celebrate
The new year
A new emperor
The Greek God Dionysus
Their king
The humanist movement lead people to believe
That humans are alone in the universe
That humans can think for themselves
That God is a human
That the world is flat
In a Greek theatre, the place where the the audience sits is called
The Orchestra
Theatron
Skene
In Greek theatre the chorus performed on the
Theatron
Skene
Orchestra
In Greek theatre, masks were used to (mark all that apply)
Allow the actors to change characters quickly
Allow Gods to come down and play in the shows
Allow the actors to play parts that they would never otherwise be able to play
Women could be actors without being in trouble
In Greek Theatre, a group of men who spoke in unison and wore the same masks were the
(a)
Thespis was a Greek
writer
God
politician
actor
Greek comedies were similar to the following modern tv shows
news shows
sketch shows like SNL
sitcoms about regular people
telenovellas
What of the following is true about mystery plays?
They taught bible stories
They would sometimes be performed for many days in a row.
They were only performed by priests
They were first performed inside churches
The name for the disease that killed up to 50% of the population of Europe during the dark ages is
(a)
In the middle ages, when troupes performed in town squares they performed on
The ground
A cart
A stage that they built new for each performance
Mark all that is true about morality plays
They were popular because there was very little other entertainment during this time
They were only performed by men
They were legal and endorsed by the Catholic church because they taught Catholic values
The names of the characters reflected what kind of virtue or vice they represented
The Renaissance means
(a)
This person invented "flying machines" long before airplanes were able to fly
Galileo
Shakespeare
Henry VII
Da Vinci
Mark the types of plays Shakespeare wrote
Science fiction
Comedy
Tragedy
History
Romeo and Juliette is an example of a
Science Fiction
Comedy
Tragedy
History
A comedy play is one where
No one dies
Everything turns out good in the end
There are jokes
Nothing bad happens at all to any of the characters
Mark which plays are a Tragedy
Richard III
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Tempest
The poorest audience members during the Renaissance would only pay a penny for a show, where did they watch the show from?
The nosebleeds- very far away
The ground, they were called groundlings
They got to choose their own seats, it did not matter what they paid
Musical Theatre is a form of performance that includes
Acting
Dance
Singing
Improvisation
Vaudeville is a form of theatre that was around during the
late 1700s and early 1800s
early to mid 1800s
late 1800s to early 1900s
the mid 1900s
Fill in the blank- "when the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you (a) .
This musical was the first show to use rock music in as the music type.
Rent
In The Heights
Hamilton
Jesus Christ Superstar
Lin-Manuel Miranda made history by writing (choose all that are true)
The first show to use rap as the primary was of telling the story
The first show to have Hispanic people at all
The first story about Hispanics written by someone who identifies as Hispanic.
The only Hispanic person to win a Tony
