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Vocab Showdown

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Direction to quickly begin the next line

a)

Cue Line

b)

Pick Up Cues

c)

Lines

d)

Tag Line

2.

A character with no lines

a)

Actor

b)

Scene

c)

Walk On

d)

Objective

3.

Money Paid to the playwright for permission to perform his/her play

a)

Salary

b)

Payment

c)

Coin

d)

Royalty

4.

Information in the text not openly given, but implied

a)

Subtext

b)

Lines

c)

Text

d)

Script

5.

An actor who learns the lines and staging in case another actor cannot perform

a)

Supporting Role

b)

Actor

c)

Understudy

d)

Walk On

6.

Major Character

a)

Principal

b)

Mime

c)

Protagonist

d)

Actor

7.

An actor who communicates through the body, gestures, and facial expression

a)

Understudy

b)

Pantomime

c)

Clown

d)

Mime

8.

After the final performance of the production run, all technical effects are taken down ans stored

a)

Strike

b)

Tech

c)

Rehearsals

d)

Play

9.

The result from an outcome, used for playing a characters objective

a)

Project

b)

Tag Line

c)

Tactics

d)

Stakes

10.

Minor Characters that support the principal

a)

Supporting Role

b)

Walk on

c)

Understudy

d)

Mime

11.

A long speech for an actor on stage

a)

Dialogue

b)

monologue

c)

Soliloquy

d)

script

12.

The character's words

a)

Lines

b)

Dialogue

c)

Monologue

d)

Tag line

13.

Lines for one character

a)

Tag Line

b)

Monologue

c)

Lines

d)

Dialogue

14.

A character's reason for saying or doing something

a)

Reason

b)

Objective

c)

Goals

d)

Motivation

15.

The goal of the character

a)

Reason

b)

Objective

c)

Goal

d)

Motivation

16.

A book containing the script with notes and technical details

(a)  

17.

The written copy of the actor's lines and technical directions

(a)  

18.

An actor who learns the lines and staging of many roles and waits backstage to take over if needed

(a)  

19.

Technical rehearsals

(a)  

20.

The actor's ability to put the script aside

(a)  

21.

Final line of the scene, act, or play

a)

Tag line

b)

Cue line

c)

Scene

22.

The voice of an unseen actor

a)

Off stage voice

b)

Supporting role

c)

Voice over

23.

The division of a play, usually part of an act

a)

Act

b)

Scene

c)

Play

24.

Tape marks on the stage to show positions of stage sets and walls during rehearsals

a)

Cue marks

b)

Tape

c)

Marks

d)

Spike Marks

25.

Actor's communication without words, using only action

a)

To Sing

b)

Pantomime

c)

Mime

d)

To Act

26.

The main character of the play

a)

Principal

b)

Protagonist

c)

Antagonist

d)

Supporting Role

27.

To throw the voice to the furthest person in the audience is to

(a)  

28.

The loudness or softness of the voice, sound effects or music

a)

To Open Up

b)

Volume

c)

Vocal Variety

d)

Articulation

29.

THE BUILDING OR AREA WHERE PLAYS ARE PERFORMED IN THEAT-RE OR THEAT-ER?

a)

Theatre

b)

Theater

30.

THE ACTIVITY OR PROFESSION OF PRODUCING, ACTING IN, WRITING OR DIRECTING IS THEAT-RE OR THEAT-ER?

a)

Theatre

b)

Theater