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Play Analysis

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the best character trait to describe a certain Potions Professor in Puffs?

a)

easy-going

b)

silly

c)

grouchy

d)

sick

2.

What is the first event in the plot diagram?

a)

inciting incident

b)

rising action

c)

exposition

d)

falling action

3.

Where is the actor standing?

a)

Upstage Center

b)

Center Left

c)

Center Right

d)

Downstage Center

e)

Center

4.

What is subtext?

a)

small font in a play

b)

a footnote in a play

c)

the hidden meaning that is understood

d)

what a character wants

5.

What is a character trait of Megan from Puffs

a)

happy

b)

goofy

c)

tired

d)

misunderstood

6.

What are the three types of character traits we discussed?

a)

physical, visual, mental

b)

mental, physical, astoral

c)

personality, personification, physical

d)

physical, moral, personality

7.

When the audience knows something that the characters don't is called...

a)

situational irony

b)

sarcasm

c)

dramatic irony

d)

double jeapordy

8.

The theme is the

a)

moral

b)

universal message

c)

main idea

d)

gist

9.

How fast or slow a play is performed is called

a)

juxtaposition

b)

stage directions

c)

pacing

d)

cues

10.

The man on stage standing is located

a)

upstage left

b)

downstage left

c)

upstage right

d)

downstage right

11.

What is an intention?

a)

A deeper understanding of what a character wants

b)

A plot device

c)

figurative language

d)

the inciting incident

12.

What is the inciting incident of the Wizard of Oz?

a)

M. Gulch kidnaps Toto

b)

Dorothy runs away

c)

The witch of the East dies

d)

The tornado

13.

What is the climax of the Wizard of Oz?

a)

Dorothy meets the Wizard

b)

Dorothy saves the Tin Man

c)

Dorothy kills the witch

d)

Dorothy clicks her heels

14.

What is the best theme for Puffs?

a)

Friends are worth fighting for

b)

Good always wins

c)

Things look different from a different perspective

d)

When you save something, you have something

15.

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 6?

a)

Exposition

b)

Rising Action

c)

Climax

d)

Falling Action

e)

Denouement

16.

What part of the plot diagram is illustrated in step 3?

a)

Exposition

b)

Rising Action

c)

Climax

d)

Falling Action

e)

Resolution

17.

If you are standing center stage and I asked you to move down right you would:

a)

move further away from the audience to my right

b)

move closer to the audience to my right

18.

If our actor is center stage and is told to cross downstage left, on what number would the actor end up?

a)

7

b)

8

c)

9

19.

Where can you find physical descriptions of a character?

a)

The list of characters page

b)

written in the text

c)

written in the stage directions

d)

all of the above

20.

What does analysis mean?

a)

being overly critical of something

b)

detailed examination

c)

microscopic organisms

d)

stage directions