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WorksheetsMedieval Theatre Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
These were breaks in religious services that eventually became theatre
Tropes
Skits
Half-time shows
Interludes
Religious rituals and ceremonies
Liturgy
Literature
Mystery
Miracle
A play with religious themes
Liturgical drama
Melodrama
Pantomime
Tragedy
What language were liturgical dramas usually written in?
Latin
English
Spanish
Pig Latin
The performance style of medieval theatre could best be described as
Representational
Presentational
Melodramatic
Bad
These are the surviving records of how medieval plays were performed
Scripts
Prompt books
Bible
Sticky notes
Plays retelling biblical stories, also called "cycle plays"
Mystery plays
Morality plays
Miracle plays
Passion plays
Plays telling allegorical stories with a lesson to be learned
Mystery plays
Morality plays
Miracle plays
Passion plays
Plays detailing the lives of saints
Mystery plays
Morality plays
Miracle plays
Passion plays
The early versions of theatre directors found in the Middle Ages were called
Play masters
Directors
Play kings
Bosses
This type of play was performed by professional minstrels to break up larger events
Interlude
Passion play
Trope
Half-time show
This type of space was the most common type in the Middle Ages
Thrust
Proscenium
Alley
Black box
The large empty acting space on a medieval stage
Platea
Mansion
Booth
Thrust
The symbolic acting space on a medieval stage
Platea
Mansion
Thrust
Booth
A form of staging where the audience is stationary and the performers move by on wagons
Processional staging
Parade staging
Immersive staging
Thrust staging
The first recorded female playwright
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
Harriet Tubman
The Second Shepherds' Play is an example of a
Mystery play
Morality play
Miracle play
Roman tragedy
Everyman is the most famous medieval play and an example of a
Mystery play
Morality play
Miracle play
Musical
The Second Shepherds' Play is part of a cycle of plays called the
Wakefield Cycle
York Cycle
Chester Cycle
Bicycle
The shepherds start The Second Shepherds' Play complaining about
the weather
their bosses
their wives
All of these
In The Second Shepherds' Play, Mak tries to intimidate the shepherds by pretending to be
a yeoman
an angel
a priest
a lord
In The Second Shepherds' Play, Mak takes advantage of the shepherds' sleep to steal
a sheep
their gold
their gifts for the baby Jesus
their food
In The Second Shepherds' Play, Mak and his wife try to hide what they stole from the shepherds by disguising it as
a newborn baby
a sheep
a bundle of clothes
a pregnant woman
Which of these is not a gift one of the shepherds gave Jesus in The Second Shepherds' Play?
A bob of cherries
A ball
A bird
A sheep
What is the name of Mak's wife in The Second Shepherds' Play?
Gill
Gib
Coll
Daw
