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Dramatic Survey 2

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 37mins

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1.

Modern playwrights were most interested in

a)

making money and finding patrons

b)

proving that theatre was a dead art form

c)

technological advances in the theatre 

d)

challenging the audience to address the conventions and complacency of society

2.

Which playwright is most associated with aestheticism—a movement focused on beauty and art without social or political purpose?

a)

William Butler Yeats

b)

George Bernard Shaw

c)

Oscar Wilde

d)

Maurice Maeterlinck

3.

At what holiday does the action of A Doll House take place?

a)

Christmas

b)

Midsummer

c)

Easter

d)

New Year's

4.

Torvald gently chastises his wife as ___________________.

a)

a pinchpenny

b)

an adultress

c)

a spendthrift

d)

a dilettante

5.

Why does Mrs. Linde pay Nora a visit?

a)

She wants to reminisce about old times.

b)

She tries to blackmail her former friend.

c)

She is traveling on holiday.

d)

She needs a job.

6.

What crime did Nora commit?

a)

robbery

b)

forgery

c)

bribery

d)

embezzlement

7.

Why does Nora refuse Dr. Rank's help?

a)

He does not have enough money.

b)

He is her husband's best friend.

c)

He betrayed Ms. Linde.

d)

He implies he loves her.

8.

How does Nora stall Torvald from retrieving his mail?

a)

She demands he rehearse the tarantella with her.

b)

She takes down the Christmas tree.

c)

She seduces him. 

d)

She makes him an elegant dinner.

9.

Mrs. Linde persuades Krogstad to ___________________.

a)

depart immediately on the next Transatlantic voyage.

b)

meet with Nora to forgive the loan.

c)

give their relationship a second chance.

d)

go to the costume party and confront Torvald.

10.

Why does Dr. Rank stop by the apartment after the party?

a)

to retrieve his glasses

b)

to say goodbye for the last time

c)

to apologize to Nora for his forward behavior

d)

to give Helmer a great sum of money

11.

The dominant new theatre movement at the turn of the twentieth-century was

a)

Realism

b)

Aestheticism

c)

Futurism

d)

Symbolism

12.

George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession criticized social conditions that forced women 

a)

to choose between career and marriage

b)

into a life of prostitution

c)

to take on the services of a matchmaker to find a husband

d)

to take jobs outside the home

13.

The Independent Theatre Movement was

a)

a group of theatres funded by subscription that circumvented licensure and state sponsorship to avoid censorship

b)

an association of playwrights that could not get their plays produced on professional stages

c)

political theatre that advocated for democratic values

d)

a counter-movement to Realism and Naturalism

14.

A theatre movement that valued subjective feeling, poetic language, and sparse sets over objective realism, common vernacular, and elaborate settings

a)

Symbolist

b)

Naturalism

c)

Aestheticism

d)

Futurist

15.

Ibsen's early plays Peer Gynt and Brand were poetic reactions to what kinds of plays?

a)

Farce

b)

Symbolist plays

c)

The well-made play

d)

Romantic plays

16.

In his middle-period, Ibsen wrote all of these Realist plays except 

a)

A Doll House

b)

Ghosts

c)

An Enemy of the People

d)

Miss Julie

17.

In his later period, Ibsen wrote "modern versions of the Greek tragedy" primarily concerned with

a)

psychology and individual characters' desires and ambitions limited by conditions of modern life

b)

Darwinism and the survival of the fittest

c)

class conflicts and a Marxist critique of capitalism

d)

women's rights and emergent first-wave feminism

18.

Which of Ibsen's contemporaries comprised the "Ibsen Campaign" to defend Ibsen against his critics?

a)

Aurelien Lunge-Poe and August Strindberg

b)

George Bernard Shaw and William Archer

c)

Andre Antoine and Stanislavski

d)

Victorien Sardou and Eugene Scribe

19.

Ibsen ranks second only to which playwright for having the most produced plays?

a)

George Bernard Shaw

b)

August Strindberg

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Oscar Wilde

20.

Which of the following is not a theme in Ibsen's A Doll House?

a)

credit

b)

keeping up appearances

c)

inheritance

d)

duty to country

21.

Advant-garde, originally a military term meaning advance guard, came to be associated with

a)

commercial stages in Europe during WWI

b)

radical groups seeking social change

c)

theatre design and technology

d)

plays debuting on the Broadway stage

22.

This form of theatre is characterized by the "externalization of psychic states . . . often in nightmarish form"

a)

Expressionism

b)

Futurism

c)

Dadaism

d)

Surrealism

23.

Associated with FT Marinetti, this form of theatre idealized war and technology

a)

Expressionism

b)

Surrealism

c)

Futurism

d)

Gesamtkunstwerk

24.

This form of theatre featured non-sensical language and opposed WWI

a)

Expressionism

b)

Dadaism

c)

Surrealism

d)

Futurism

25.

This form of theatre advocated for socialism and featured dream-like imagery

a)

Surrealism

b)

Expressionism

c)

Surrealism

d)

Dadaism

26.

This form of theatre "interrupts the flow of drama" to "provoke critical thinking about the political nature of events happening on the stage"

a)

Epic Theatre

b)

Little Theatre

c)

Gesamtkunstwerk

d)

Metatheatre

27.

The founder of Abbey Theatre dedicated to the cultural independence of Ireland and an Irish national theatre

a)

William Butler Yeats

b)

John Millington Synge 

c)

Eugene O'Neill

d)

Lady Augusta Gregory

28.

Associated with the Provincetown Players, this American theatre movement produced experimental, non-commercial theatre

a)

Epic Theatre

b)

Metatheatre

c)

Theatre of Cruelty

d)

Little Theatre

29.

This form of theatre explores the nature of role-playing and the relationship between reality and theatrical illusion

a)

Metatheatre

b)

Epic Theatre

c)

Theatre of Cruelty

d)

Little Theatre

30.

Which of the following playwrights was not associated with the Provincetown Players?

a)

Eugene O'Neill

b)

Sophie Treadwell

c)

Susan Glaspell

d)

Luigi Pirandello

31.

How did Sophie Treadwell support herself financially through college?

a)

actress in student plays at Berkley

b)

telephonist

c)

typist

d)

student reporter for the San Francisco Examiner

32.

Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of Sophie Treadwell?

a)

Covered WWI in France

b)

Had seven plays on Broadway between 1922-1941

c)

Was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

d)

Went undercover as a prostitute to write "An Outcast at the Christian Door"

33.

A term meaning "total work of art, synergy of theme, narrative, dramaturgical form, and production style" 

a)

Metatheatre

b)

Epic Theatre

c)

Dadaism

d)

Gesamtkunstwerk

34.

Machinal was based on the real trial of 

a)

Suzanne Basso

b)

Lisa Coleman

c)

Francis Newton

d)

Ruth Snyder

35.

Sound that exists in the world of the play and can be heard by the characters is considered

a)

digetic

b)

atmosphere

c)

non-digetic

d)

primary

36.

Which sound is associated with Episode Four: Maternal set in the hospital?

a)

riveting

b)

a baby's cry

c)

heartbeat monitor

d)

sound of an airplane

37.

What does the song Cielito Lindo mean in Episode Six: Intimate?

a)

Little Moon

b)

Little Flower

c)

Little Heaven

d)

Little Stones

38.

What was Mr. Roe's motive for the murder of the bandit?

a)

To steal money

b)

To defend honor

c)

To avenge a murder

d)

To get free

39.

What does Mr. Jones find attractive about the Young Woman?

a)

Her hands

b)

Her hairstyle

c)

Her voice

d)

Her work ethic

40.

How is the Young Woman executed for killing her husband?

a)

electric chair

b)

hanging

c)

firing squad

d)

lethal injection

41.

Which postwar WWII theatre genre is associated with French dramatists Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco?

a)

Method Acting

b)

Welfare State

c)

Theatre of Cruelty

d)

Absurdism

42.

What was the title of the play by Peter Weiss that examined the Holocaust through the recreation of war crimes testimony?

a)

Cloud Nine

b)

The Investigation

c)

Zoo Story

d)

Look Back in Anger

43.

What British director popularized working class theatre and entertained orphaned children freed from concentration camps?

a)

John Orton

b)

Caryl Churchill

c)

John Osborne

d)

Joan Littlewood

44.

Which American theatre extended Constantin Stanislavsky's System into Method acting that emphasized psychological motivation, intention, and subtext?

a)

Group Theatre

b)

Alley Theatre

c)

Arena Stage

d)

Guthrie

45.

Zoot Suit was a play by what Off-Off-Broadway theatre company that used agit prop theatre to draw attention to migrant farmworkers

a)

El Teatro Campesino

b)

Judson Poet's Theatre

c)

Open Theatre

d)

Caffe Cino

46.

Which play brought African American theatre into the mainstream?

a)

August Wilson's Fences

b)

Suzan Lori Park's American Play

c)

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

d)

Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman

47.

Although he lived in France most of his life, where was Samuel Beckett born?

a)

Germany

b)

Ireland

c)

Poland

d)

Scotland

48.

Which of Beckett's plays features "a woman buried in a mound up to her waist?"

a)

Krapp's Last Tape

b)

Lullaby

c)

Endgame

d)

Happy Days

49.

Who did Beckett meet as a lecturer in English who influenced him as a writer?

a)

Bertolt Brecht

b)

Martin Esslin

c)

Oscar Wilde

d)

James Joyce

50.

What did Beckett join when Germany invaded France in 1940?

a)

Works Progress Administration

b)

Society of Literature

c)

French Resistance

d)

Berliner Ensemble

51.

Samuel Beckett is part of what philosophical movement that writes about human existence in a world without meaning?

a)

Essentialism

b)

Expressive Realism

c)

Existentialism

d)

Expressionism

52.

The messenger boy says Godot will arrive ___________________.

a)

next year

b)

tomorrow

c)

never

d)

today

53.

In their second meeting, with what has Pozzo been afflicted?

a)

gout

b)

tuberculosis

c)

mute

d)

blindness

54.

Vladimir and Estragon plan to bring what to their next meeting?

a)

rope

b)

violins

c)

oranges

d)

turnips

55.

What has changed between Act 1 and Act 2 in Waiting for Godot?

a)

Vladimir has met Godot

b)

Dogs have stolen Estragon's shoe

c)

The tree has grown leaves

d)

Pozzo has parted with Lucky

56.

What replaces plot in Waiting for Godot?

a)

Conflict

b)

Reversals

c)

Activities

d)

Episodes

57.

Which of the following is NOT a symbolic object in Waiting for Godot?

a)

vegetables

b)

boots

c)

books

d)

hats

58.

What does Lucky need his hat to do?

a)

Talk

b)

Think

c)

Sing

d)

Walk

59.

What does Pozzo give Estragon?

a)

a bit of rope

b)

a radish

c)

his pipe

d)

a bone

60.

Where was Waiting for Godot performed in 1957 and 1988?

a)

Dublin

b)

San Quentin Penitentiary

c)

Off Broadway

d)

Walter Reed Hospital

61.

Contemporary theatre refers to plays written 

a)

After WWII

b)

during the twentieth century

c)

during the twenty-first century

d)

after 1970

62.

What is a dominant feature of globalization

a)

Rising nationalism

b)

Space exploration

c)

World peace

d)

Interdependent global economies and information and technology networks

63.

Peter Brook's 1985 adaptation of __________ took place at the Avignon Festival in France and used international actors

a)

Tiny Alice

b)

The Swamp Dwellers

c)

A Doll House

d)

The Mahabharata

64.

In what way did contemporary theatre NOT respond to media in the 1970s

a)

Using television to broadcast theatre

b)

Incorporation of media

c)

Return to ritual and communal theatre

d)

Lobbying to prohibit media in theatre

65.

What does pastiche refer to in postmodern theater?

a)

actors speaking French on stage

b)

use of realistic staging devices

c)

creation of filmed performances

d)

juxtaposition of styles and historical periods

66.

The rise of media influenced some playwrights to work as screenwriters and adopt a cinematic style in their writing including

a)

Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg

b)

Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard

c)

Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett

d)

Sam Shepard and David Mamet

67.

In international theatre, dialogue with indigenous theatrical, dramatic, and narrative forms as evidenced by the play One Thousand and One Nights was characteristic of what part of the world

a)

Canada and the United States

b)

The Arab world

c)

Japan, China, India

d)

Mexico, Ireland, Egypt

68.

The exploration of "the influence of imperial ideologies, power structures, and discourses on contemporary perceptions and relations: and look for ways in which those who live in [such] societies can achieve new forms of identity and cultural resistance" are defining characteristics of which kind of theatre:

a)

Multicultural theatre

b)

Performance art

c)

Postcolonial theatre

d)

International theatre

69.

Among other qualities, what makes Wole Soyinka unique as a Nigerian writer?

a)

He collaborated with Native American writer Thomson Highway to create a ritualistic play.

b)

He developed settlement colonies for white settlers to learn about Nigerian culture.

c)

He is the only African playwright to reject a British education.

d)

He incorporates European dramatic models (classical Greece) in his works.

70.

Which of the following was an early work of Wole Soyinka?

a)

Mahabharata

b)

Harold and the Boys

c)

The Lion and the Jewel

d)

A Lesson from Aloes

71.

When Wole Soyinka became politically active in Nigeria in 1967,

a)

he was imprisoned in solitary confinement for two years

b)

he was imprisoned in solitary confinement for two years

c)

is plays were banned on the African continent

d)

he was formally exiled

72.

Which of the following Yoruba rituals is referenced in Death and the King's Horseman?

a)

Egungun

b)

Anansesem

c)

Domej

d)

Ignoma

73.

Death and the King's Horseman is based on actual events that occurred in

a)

1968 Nigerian Civil War

b)

1946 World War 2

c)

1965 Vietnam War

d)

1916 World War 1

74.

Because of his role as the king's horseman, on the king's death Elesin is required to ___________________.

a)

marry the former king's wives

b)

serve as interim king until the king's eldest son can be enthroned

c)

commit ritual self-sacrifice

d)

mourn for two full years

75.

According to Elesin, his life next to the king was ___________________.

a)

Meaningless

b)

Privileged

c)

Terrifying

d)

Harsh

76.

What kind of event are Simon and Jane Pilkings hosting for the royal prince and his entourage?

a)

a performance of traditional Yoruba dance

b)

a masquerade

c)

a knighthood ceremony

d)

the coronation of a new Yoruba king

77.

Elesin's son is in Europe, where he is a ___________________.

a)

military trainee

b)

medical student

c)

trade representative

d)

Yoruba ambassador

78.

When Elesin hears the praise-singer, he believes he is speaking to ___________________.

a)

the deceased king

b)

his son

c)

Iyaloja

d)

his horse

79.

Elesin dies of ___________________.

a)

cancer

b)

shame

c)

consumption

d)

strangulation

80.

Who is the only person permitted to close Elesin's eyes after he dies?

a)

Pilkings, in his capacity as District Officer

b)

his bride

c)

Iyaloja

d)

his son

81.

Gallimard reveals that his grammar school classmates voted him __________________.

a)

"least likely to be invited to a party"

b)

"best-looking"

c)

"most likely to get rich"

d)

"Mr. Congeniality"

82.

Gallimard is mocked for loving Butterfly, whom Gallimard identifies as ___________________.

a)

Marilyn Manson

b)

Marilyn Monroe

c)

the Perfect Woman

d)

himself, dressed as a woman

83.

Gallimard explains his situation by introducing the famous opera ___________________.

a)

Turnadot

b)

Madama Butterfly

c)

Carmen

d)

Tosca

84.

Song is concerned that her reputation in China will be damaged by ___________________.

a)

singing Italian rather than Chinese operas

b)

engaging in an affair with Gallimard

c)

the Chinese Revolution

d)

hosting Gallimard at her apartment for a friendly visit over tea

85.

Manuel Toulon is ___________________.

a)

Marc's code name when he prowls the prostitutes' district

b)

the French ambassador to China

c)

Mr. Shi's stage name

d)

Gallimard's liaison

86.

Chin assigns Song the task of getting information from Gallimard about ___________________.

a)

French imperialist expansion

b)

U.S. plans for bombing Vietnam

c)

Marc's affair with Gallimard's wife

d)

geishas compromising their honor with American soldiers

87.

Why does Helga visit a doctor?

a)

She is suffering from depression as a result of Gallimard's affair with Song

b)

She may have syphilis.

c)

She may have cancer from radiation exposure.

d)

he is unable to get pregnant.

88.

Song tells Gallimard that in Imperial China a man with an infertile wife could follow the "natural solution," by which he means that the man would ___________________.

a)

pay a traditional healer for natural treatment rather than a modern doctor for manufactured medication

b)

turn to another woman to bear him a son

c)

murder his wife and marry another

d)

visit a fertility shrine and pray

89.

Song believes she has absolved herself for sleeping with a foreigner by ___________________.

a)

bowing before Chin and extolling his praises as the crowd stones her

b)

working in the fields of Hunan

c)

fostering a son

d)

quitting the opera

90.

Song moves to Paris and convinces Gallimard to become ___________________.

a)

a drag queen

b)

her homosexual lover in public

c)

mayor of Paris

d)

a document courier

91.

Gallimard begins to ______ when Song strips and reveals he is a man.

a)

laugh

b)

scream

c)

vomit

d)

cry

92.

Who made up the first-wave of Asian immigrants to the United States?

a)

Cambodians fleeing a civil war

b)

Chinese laborers to work on the transcontinental railroad

c)

Japanese fleeing poverty during the Meiji Restoration

d)

Filipinos that escaped from a Spanish ship and settled in the Louisiana Bayou

93.

Which of the following is NOT an Asian stereotype explored in M. Butterfly?

a)

Evil genius

b)

Obedient servant

c)

Lotus blossom

d)

submissive

94.

Where was David Henry Hwang born?

a)

China

b)

California

c)

New York City

d)

Thailand

95.

What was David Henry Hwang's first play?

a)

The Dance and the Railroad

b)

Yellow Face

c)

Chinglish

d)

FOB

96.

What real news story is M. Butterfly based on?

a)

The first execution of a woman in New York state

b)

A World War II incident in which a Bristish diplomat interrupted a sacred indigenous ritual

c)

The Italian opera Madame Butterfly

d)

A 1986 espionage trial of a French diplomat and Chinese opera star

97.

Who is the theorist that defines orientalism as an invention of the Western imagination?

a)

Antoine Artaud

b)

Bertolt Brecht

c)

Edward Said

d)

Aristotle

98.

Why is Song offended by Gallimard's compliment that she makes a convincing Madama Butterfly?

a)

Because Song prefers the Peking opera

b)

Because Song is male

c)

Because the Japanese treated the Chinese horribly during WWII

d)

Because she forgot her lines

99.

The late twentieth to twenty-first century can be described as cosmopolitan, which means:

a)

Including many different people from different countries

b)

The rise of the LGBTQIA+ community

c)

The West dominating a submissive East

d)

Emerging digital media

100.

Which of the following led to the emergence of openly gay themes and playwrights?

a)

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

b)

Sexual Offenses Act of 1967

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

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