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Backstage Pass Final Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 1hrs 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If you walk towards the audience, you are walking ________.

a)

Upstage

b)

Downstage

c)

Stage Right

d)

Stage Left

2.

If you are walking away from the audience, you are walking _________________.

a)

Upstage

b)

Downstage

c)

Stage Right

d)

Stage Left

3.

The direction of stage left and right is determined by whose perspective?

a)

Audience

b)

Director

c)

Actor

d)

Parent

4.

What stage segment is highlighted here?

a)

Upstage Left (UL)

b)

Downstage Left (DL)

c)

Upstage Right (UR)

d)

Downstage Right (DR)

5.

What stage segment is highlighted here?

a)

Downstage Center (DC)

b)

Upstage Center (UC)

c)

Center Center (CC)

d)

Downstage Left (DL)

6.

What stage segment is highlighted here?

a)

Center Right (CR)

b)

Center Left (CL)

c)

Downstage Right (DR)

d)

Downstage Left (DL)

7.

What stage segment is highlighted here?

a)

Downstage Left

b)

Upstage Left

c)

Downstage Right

d)

Upstage Right

8.

What stage segment is highlighted here?

a)

Downstage Right (DR)

b)

Upstage Right (UR)

c)

Downstage Left (DL)

d)

Center Center (CC)

9.

What does the playwright do?

a)

Makes airplanes

b)

Has a collection of books for people to borrow

c)

Finds actors

d)

Writes the play

10.
Dialogue
a)
the chapters in a drama/play
b)
characters in a drama/play
c)
what the actors say in a drama/play
d)
tools used to bring a scence
11.
Script
a)
written words for actors
b)
the chapters in a drama
c)
characters in a drama
d)
the place where actors perform 
12.
Monologue is a speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person to express his/her thoughts and ideas aloud.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
Actor
a)

One who writes plays; a dramatist
b)

The person responsible for the directions of the actors in a play; provides the play’s vision.
c)

One who performs a role or represents a character in a play
14.
Stage directions
a)

A dramatic device in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud, in words meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters
b)

Determining the basic movements of the actors during a play; sometimes provided by the playwright,sometimes developed by actors, but usually supplied by the director
c)

Notes added to the script of play, generally in italics or parentheses that provide the line readings, blocking, business, etc.
d)

The surrounding in which the action of the play develops
15.
Blocking
a)

The part of the theater building that holds the audience; also called the house
b)

Determining the basic movements of the actors during a play; sometimes provided by the playwright,sometimes developed by actors, but usually supplied by the director
c)
Notes added to the script of play, generally in italics or parentheses that provide the line readings, blocking, business, etc.
d)

The surrounding in which the action of the play develops
16.
Director
a)
 The person responsible for the directions of the actors in a play; provides the play’s vision.
b)

One who writes plays; a dramatist
c)

The person who puts together a theatrical production & who obtains the financial backing; leading the rights to the play; rents the theater, hires the director, designer, house & stage crew, supervises, does the advertising & budget, & sometimes hires the cast
17.
Set
a)
The area immediately offstage left and right where actors stand to await their cues.
b)

The surrounding in which the action of the play develops
c)

The part of the theater building that holds the audience; also called the house
18.
A "soliloquy" and an "aside" are different from a "monologue" because they are...
a)
quietly spoken off-stage.
b)
both discussions between two characters.
c)
spoken directly to the audience.