WorksheetsQ2 SPA Theater Arts 8 (Theater Videos) Summative Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
All characters, whether protagonist, antagonist, and support has a ____ or goal they wanted to achieve
want
story
secret
life
It is any physical action or expression a character makes in the narrative.
Gestures
Movement
Blocking
Direction
It is the modulation or inflection of our voices and the beat, rate, or rhythm of our words.
Tempo
Dynamics
Rhythmic Pattern
Cadence
Stick with _______ for emphasis.
Underline
Italics
Bold
Strikeout
It has only one function in dialogue which is to indicate a length and type of pause.
Narratives
Line
Punctuation
Pause
Anything designed to identify who is speaking and/or how a line is supposed to be understood by the reader is called:
Tags
Signs
Dialogue
Clues
It is everything you bring to the table when you write (background, beliefs, desires, etc.)
Identity
Thoughts
Perception
Voice
How we endow a character or a scene with emotions we, ourselves have felt and experienced is termed as:
Emotional Memory
Experiential Memory
Memory
Emotion/Experience
As a writer, you needed to inhabit the mind of your characters.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
It is either a performance space in which the casts only uses black boxes for furniture instead of building an entire set or it refers to rehearsals that are done without any costumes, props, furniture, and so on.
Box Rundown
Black Box
Rundown
Black Rehearsal
R.L. Stine got his ideas from the "Idea store" which has the following departments EXCEPT:
Imagination
Emotion
Memory
Experience
Young audiences loves a happy ending. So as writers, you should always write a happy ending but with a twist.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
As writers, use cliffhangers to keep your readers reading.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
For your audience to not be able to guess the ending, a trick you may use is to first write/know the ________.
beginning
middle
ending
all parts
R.L. Stine writes with at least _____ twists in a book.
1 or 2
2 or 3
3 or 4
4 or 5
The hardest part for R.L. Stine is writing the _____ part of the book.
beginning
middle
end
random
The first _____ pages of the book should reveal what's going to develop, what the problem gonna be, what's going to happen then some kind of surprise and cliffhanger.
2
3
4
5
For you to create a suspense, there has to be something that is ________ to your character/reader for them to find out for themselves throughout the story.
dark
unknown
scary
dying
R.L. Stine wants the reader to be the protagonist of the story that's why he doesn't characterize much with the main character.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
As the writer of the story, always remember that you are not the friend of the protagonist. You are actually the enemy of the main character.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
You should have a/an _______ to avoid "Writer's Block."
outline
discipline
proper mindset
goal
These are twenty story ideas given by R.L. Stine EXCEPT:
You have no reflection in the mirror
You know someone's watching you day and night from your attic
Every time you wake up, you are a different person
While reading a scary book, you discover that you are a character in it
Keep the story simple so the audience can easily follow it and also so that they will easily be mislead.
True
False
Maybe
I don't know
David Mamet stated that all dramas are based on _______.
lies
love
truth
life
It is a hero's journey from A to B. The hero should be transformed from King to beggar, beggar to king. It should happen in one place, within 48 hours. The character has to undergo reverse situation and recognition.
Shakespeare's Rule for Story
Plato's Rule for Story
Aristotle's Rule for Story
Einstein's Rule for Story
As a writer, If it's not fun for you, then it's not going to be fun for your audience. The audience undergoes the same process as the writer.
True
False
I don't know
Maybe
The tough part of being a dramatic writer is when you need to stop screwing around.
True
False
Maybe
I don't know
You're responsibility as a writer is to tell the _____
lies
truth
idea
story
Who said "psychoanalysis is the art of the obvious"?
Freud
Erickson
Adler
Jung
"The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone" is from the book of:
Proverbs
Psalms
Matthew
John
