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Drama KS3 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When might you use a freeze frame?

4 lines
2.

What is a freeze frame?

a)

A moving scene

b)

A moment where everyone is still on stage

c)

Where people transition from one scene to another

d)

A moment where people say what they are thinking

3.

What is a thought track?

a)

Where 2 people speak to each other on stage

b)

It's another word for dialogue

c)

It's where the action freezes

d)

It's where a character tells the audience what they are thinking.

4.

What is a transition?

a)

The movement between scenes

b)

It's when everyone moves at the same time

c)

It's the only time furniture is moved on stage

d)

It happens at the end of the play

5.

What should transitions look like on stage? (3 possible answers)

4 lines
6.

When and why would you use slow motion in Drama?

4 lines
7.

What is direct address?

a)

It's narrating the story

b)

It's dialogue in the scene

c)

It's when characters argue with one another

d)

It's when an actor speaks straight to the audience

8.

What is multi-roling?

a)

It's when you use physical theatre

b)

It's lots of things happening on stage at once

c)

It's where the actors have more than 1 part each

d)

It's when everyone has a role

9.

What is physical theatre?

a)

It's where you use your body language on stage

b)

It's where you use movement on stage

c)

It's where you use your body as an object

d)

It's where you don't use any words

10.

What is mime?

a)

Drama with no words

b)

It's where you use your body and voice on stage

c)

It's how you move on stage

d)

It's using your voice and face creatively

11.

What is cross-cutting?

a)

It's where everyone speaks and moves at the same time

b)

It's a transition between scenes

c)

It's where you have 2 scenes happening on stage at the same time

d)

It's where you move from one scene to another

12.

What is split stage / screen?

a)

It's where everyone faces the audience when they speak

b)

It's where you have 2 scenes on stage at the same time

c)

It's where the stage is split in 2 halves

d)

It's acting for screen

13.

Draw a square and label the audience. Add in Stage Right, Stage Left, Centre Stage, Up Stage and Down Stage

14.

What is the job of a narrator in a play?

4 lines
15.

Fictional people in a play are called

a)

Actors

b)

Props

c)

Scenes

d)

Characters

16.

What does T.I.E. stand for?

a)

Theatre is Excellent

b)

Time is Ending

c)

Theatre in Education

d)

Theatre, Ideas, Entertainment

17.

What skills do you feel studying Drama has given you? (Give 3 points if possible)

4 lines
18.

Is Theatre supposed to be for

a)

Educating the audience?

b)

Entertaining the audience?

c)

Using music and dance in plays?

d)

All of these?

19.

What type of stage configuration is this?

a)

A thrust stage

b)

A Proscenium Arch stage

c)

Theatre in the Round

d)

Traverse Stage

20.

Theatre first started in ...

a)

Medieval times

b)

Rome

c)

Greece

d)

Turkey