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Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 39mins
Greek Theatre started as a part of what?
Political Elections
Royal Ceremonies
Religious Festivals
Parties
Which part of the Greek Stage was known as the "dancing space"?
Parados
Skene
Orchestra
Parodos
Who was allowed to act in Greek Plays?
Men
Women
Children
All of the above
In Greek theatre, the chorus wore what?
Elaborate costumes
Similar make up
Large wigs
Masks
In what part of a Greek play do characters act out the story?
Parados
Episode
Prologue
Choral Ode
Which part of the Greek stage is known as the Viewing Place?
Orchestra
Theatron
Skene
Parodos
Who was the first actor in history?
Dionysus
Poseidon
Thespis
Sophocles
What does the Greek Chorus represent onstage?
The General Population
The Kings
The Gods
The actor's family
What do we call the person who manipulates a puppet?
A puppeteer
A performer
A puppet-man
A papoose
Which type of puppet is found almot exclusively in Vietnam?
Shadow Puppet
Mouth Puppet
Water Puppet
Rod Puppet
Which type of puppet uses ticks to move the head, body, hands and legs of the figure?
Shadow Puppet
Rod Puppet
Mouth Puppet
Finger Puppet
Which type of puppet requires being lit behind a cloth?
Water Puppet
Hand Puppet
Shadow Puppet
Rod Puppet
Puppets are no longer used in theatre, film or television today.
True
False
Which of the following is a type of musical where musical numbers and dances are fully intergrated into a climatic plot structure?
Showcase
Book Musical
Book Musical
Revue
Which of the following is an example of a sung through musical?
Oklahoma
9 to 5
Shrek: The Musical
Hamilton
What type of musical features hit songs of a popular music group or genre?
Showcase
Jukebox Musical
Sung Through Musical
Book Musical
Cats is an example of what?
Showcase
Revue
Jukebox Musical
Concept Musical
For a musical, who writes the music?
Librettist
Director
Composer
Lyricist
Who creates the dance routines for a musical?
Producer
Choreographer
Actor
Librettist
What type of songs tells a fairly strict narrative, typically of one particular character?
Overture
Ballad
Curtain Raiser
Show Stopper
What type of song is a big number that opens a musical?
Show stopper
Patter Song
Curtain Raiser
Ballad
What was the name of the sea battles that took place in the Coliseum?
Naumachia
Venationes
Pirate Fight
Nautilus Attack
What was the name of the animal fights that took place in the Coliseum?
Animal Gladiators
Venationes
Boxing
Naumachia
Which ancient theatre culture did the Romans draw their inspriation from?
Egyptians
Sumerians
Greeks
Celts
What was the name of the oldest offical festival that honored Jupiter?
Dionysia
ludi Romani
Pompa
Spartacian
What was the name of the Roman who wrote tragedies? His plays are the only examples of Roman tragedy we have.
Euripides
Terence
Platus
Seneca
Which Roman Playwright wrote The Brothers, Mother-in-Law?
Sophocles
Plautus
Terence
Seneca
Around what year did Roman Theatre originate?
250 B.C.
1987 A.D.
4000 B.C.
1540 A.D.
What was the name of the stage on a Roman theatre?
Cavea
Orchestra
Vomitoria
Pulpitum
What was the name of the auditorium on a Roman theatre?
Orchestra
Pulpitum
Pulpitum
Vomitoria
What was the name of the building used for chariot races?
Ampitheater
Scaena
Circus Maximus
Vomitoria
In a Roman theatre this was the “stage house”, joined with audience to form one architectural unit
Pulpitum
Vomitoria
Orchestra
Scaena
In a Roman Theatre these corridors under the seats that lead onto the orchestra were called __________?
Pulpitum
Cavea
Vomitoria
Scaena
The Romans hated violence and refused to show it onstage.
True
False
The Romans incorporated ideas of Farce and Slapstick into their comedies.
True
False
Roman Actors were referred to as histriones.
True
False
The Romans style of theatre was very tragic and extremely reverent towards the gods. They hated comedy.
True
False
What does "renaissance" mean in French?
Reorganized
Rebirth
Festival
Art
What popular art form was developed in Italy during their renaissance?
Roman Farce
Realism
Well-Made Play
Commedia dell'arte
Who was the most popular playwright during the French Renaissance and wrote plays like Tartuffe and The Miser?
Marlowe
Seneca
Moliere
Cervantes
Which monarch in England supported the growth of Theatre?
Queen Elizabeth I
King Henry VIII
Oliver Cromwell
Queen Mary
Which of the following Playwrights was NOT famous during the English Renaissance?
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Machiavelli
Christopher Marlowe
Which English Renaissance playwright was rumored to have faked his own death?
Henrik Ibsen
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Who is the most popular playwright to come out of the English Renaissance? He is credited with writing 38 plays 154 Sonnets.
Samuel French
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Anton Chekov
A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. u /
Heartbeat
Trochaic
Lamb
Pentameter
A measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Verse
Poem
Foot
Head
A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
Pentameter
Perimeter
Tetrameter
Meter
Women were allowed to perform during the English Renaissance.
True
False
Plays during the French Renaissance were created for the poor, and royalty were never invited to see the plays.
True
False
The English Renaissance is referred to as Elizabethan Theatre because Queen Elizabeth I, loved to support the theatre.
True
False
Renaissance Theatre throughout all of Europe was in response to the medieval period and the church.
True
False
What is the correct order these happended :D
Italian Renaissance Spanish Renaissance English Renaissance French Renaissance
Spanish Renaissance French Renaissance Italian Renaissance English Renaissance
French Renaissance English Renaissance Spanish Renaissance Italian Renaissance
English Renaissance Italian Renaissance French Renaissance Spanish Renaissance
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of farce?
Deliberate use of absurdity
Lack of dialogue
Situations that are highly exaggerated
Physical humor
Which Commedia character eats constantly?
Leandro
Il Dottore
Pantalone
Colombina
Which Commedia characters were birdlike?
Zanni
Innamorati
Masters
Vecchi
What is the Commedia term for the class of Masters?
Vecchi
Zanni
Il Dottore
Innamorati
What is the Commedia term for the class of Lovers?
Dottore
Vecchi
Innamorati
Zanni
Pantalone leads with which part of his body?
Heart
Knees
Nose
Forehead
Commedia troupes drew inspiration from what?
Pantomime
Roman Atellan Farce
Shakespeare
Greek Comedy
Which of the following was the head servant of the household?
Zanni
Brighella
Colombina
Arrlechino
In Commedia, what is the term for a short, rehearsed, comedic bit?
Vecchi
Panto
Arte
Lazzi
Colombina leads with which part of her body?
Shins
knees
Core
Forehead
When did Farce originate?
1987 AD
1540 AD
540 BC
300s AD
Which Commedia character leads with their shins?
Arrlechino
Brighella
Leandro
El Capitano
What is a modern day example of Farce?
Soap Operas
Cartoons
Musicals
Reality TV
In Commedia, who is the foolish hero?
Colombina
Zanni
Arrlechino
Brighella
The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of what?
Theatre
Science
Art
All of the above
A and B only
Which of the following could be a child of the Vecchi?
Magnifico
Isabella
Arrlechino
Brighella
Commedia dell'arte translates to what?
Comedy of Italy
Comedy of Music
Comedy of Theatre
Comedy of Art
Commedia Dell'Arte formed around when?
300 AD
1540 AD
2000 AD
300 BC
Which class is the highest on the Comemdia Hierarchy?
Servants
Innamorati
Vecchi
Zanni
In Commedia, women were not allowed to perform.
True
False
In Commedia, actors typically played many stock characters.
True
False
Greek Theatre started as a part of what?
Political Elections
Parties
Religious Festivals
Royal Ceremonies
Which part of the Greek Stage was known as the "dancing space"?
Parodos
Skene
Parados
Orchestra
