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Theatre History

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 4hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The two great periods in tragedy are

a)

Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England

b)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

c)

Inciting incident

d)

Select, arrange, heighten

2.

This genre mixes tragedy and comedy to create a serious play that ends happily

a)

Tragicomedy

b)

Protagonist

c)

Melodrama

d)

Tragedy

3.

The dramaturg has basically two functions ___________ and production dramaturgy

a)

characterization

b)

Protagonist

c)

Comedy and tragedy

d)

Literary management

4.

The events or actions of secondary interest that often provide contrast to the main plot

a)

Thought

b)

Protagonist

c)

subtext

d)

Subplot

5.

Two basic dramatic forms throughout theatre history

a)

Select, arrange, heighten

b)

Comedy and tragedy

c)

A complication

d)

Literary management

6.

The first acknowledged dramaturg

a)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

b)

Comedy and tragidy

c)

Select, arrange, heighten

d)

Inciting incident

7.

Aristotle described his six elements of tragedy in?

a)

Cause and effect

b)

deviation

c)

expression

d)

The Poetics

8.

The leading character of a tragedy is most commonly known as the ____________________

a)

subplot

b)

expression

c)

Protagonist

d)

tragicomedy

9.

The majority of plays are organized by ____________.

a)

Literary management

b)

Comedy and tragedy

c)

Cause and effect

d)

The Poetics

10.

Physical, societal, psychological, and moral are the four levels of ________________

a)

Literary management

b)

Characterization

c)

Protagonist

d)

A complication

11.

The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play

a)

expression

b)

Exposition

c)

deviation

d)

Protagonist

12.

dramatic form often concerned about the nature of human existence, morality, or human relationships

a)

Tragicomedy

b)

Tragedy

c)

Subtest

d)

Subplot

13.

Any new element that changes the direction of the action

a)

Climax

b)

deviation

c)

Denouement

d)

Spectacle

14.

Overall structure of the play

a)

Thought

b)

Plot

c)

Melodrama

d)

Climax

15.

Comedy is based on a ____________ from normality

a)

Subtext

b)

Deviation

c)

Spectacle

d)

Denouement

16.

The highest point of suspense in a play

a)

Inciting incident

b)

Melodrama

c)

Climax

d)

Select, arrange, heighten

17.

Overall structure of the play

a)

Spectacle

b)

Denouement

c)

Thought

d)

Plot

18.

___________ comes after the climax

a)

Meladrama

b)

expression

c)

Denouement

d)

Plot

19.

The character's true meaning behind the surface of their communication

a)

Select, arrange, heighten

b)

A complication

c)

subtext

d)

inciting incident

20.

Three things that playwrights do to language

a)

Comedy and tragedy

b)

Select, arrange, heighten

c)

Inciting incident

d)

Plot

21.

All of the visual elements of a play

a)

expression

b)

spectacle

c)

melodrama

d)

climax

22.

This genre features a clearly defined role of good and evil

a)

comedy and tragedy

b)

melodrama

c)

deviation

d)

denoument

23.

The background information the audience must have in order to understand what is going on in the action of a play is known as

a)

complication

b)

exposition

c)

dramaturg

d)

subtext

24.

Style in drama results from a distinctive mode of _________

a)

cause and effect

b)

thought

c)

expression

d)

melodrama