WorksheetsTheatre and Drama Quiz
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 31mins
Ancient Greek Theatre was originally a festival for
A) Athena
B) Zeus
C) Dionysis
D) Poseidon
What was the entrance where the chorus would enter called?
A) Parados
B) Theatron
C) Altar
D) Proskene
What is Catharsis?
A) Characters who suffered from hubris
B) Strict rules that govern behavior.
C) Solo maksed dancers in greek dramas
D) A purifying clensing of the emotions, described by Aristotle in Poetics.
Who was considered the first actor?
A) Theo
B) Thespis
C) Actoria
D) Theodore
What did Romans change about Greek style theatre? A) They eliminated masks B) They had no buildings C) They eliminated choruses D) They eliminated the story
A) They eliminated masks
B) They had no buildings
C) They eliminated choruses
D) They eliminated the story
What does secular mean?
A) It is not related to religion
B) It is about greek people
C) It is about a saint
D) It is about religion
What type of meter did Shakespeare write in?
A) Trochaic Pentameter
B) lambic Heptameter
C) Spondaic Monometer
D) lambic Pentameter
What are the three categories in Shakespearean drama?
A) Romance, Comedy, Tregedy
B) Comedy, History, Tragedy
C) Romance, History and Comedy
D) Comedy and Tragedy
In which type of Medieval play would you find characters named "Greed"
A) Morality Play
B) Miracle Play
C) Mystery Play
D) A Comedy
What did Hrosvitha do?
A) She was a nun who told the Catholic church to allow theatre
B) She wrote a review criticizing Shakespeare
C) She was the first female playwright
D) She wrote a phamplet saying that women needed to be allowed on stage.
What is the main type of acting in Commedia dell'arte
A) Comedic
B) Silent
C) Tragic
D) Improv
Which of the following is NOT a Unity by Aristotle
A) Unity of Time
B) Unity of Character
C) Unity of Action
D) Unity of Place
The foremost writer of French comedy during the seventeenth century was:
A) Moliere
B) Defoe
C) Racine
D) Corneille
Why did theater decline in Paris after 1682?
A) Neoclassicism stifled any evolution of theater.
B) Catholics defeated the Protestants & censored or outlawed most plays.
C) Louis XIV withdrew patronage and Richelieu could not support subsidies.
D) Louis XIV moved his court to the Palace of Versailles.
What purpose did the amphithéâtre serve in the French theater?
A) It provided an advanced sound system.
B) It provided sloped boxes for better stage visibility.
C) It allowed for special effects and modern equipment.
D) It was the general place for public entertainment.
What does a costume designer NOT design
A) Hair
B) Makeup
C) Props
D) Wardrobe
To have a fundamental knowledge of stage makeup you need to know
A) Color Theory
B) How lighting works
C) How to blend
D) How to take a mold of someones face
What did Berchtol Brecht Create?
A) Breaking the Fourth Wall
B) Slopped stages
C) The procenium arch
D) The alienation effect
Brechts plays often critiqued:
A) Women
B) The Americans
C) Capitalism
D) Communism
Who is in charge of casting?
A) The director
B) The producer
C) The stage manager
D) The actor
Once a play opens it's considered
A) Ended
B) Bad
C) Frozen
D) Profitable
Which was the first musical to have an all female creative team?
A) Hamilton
B) Sylvia
C) The Lion King
Waitress
The name of the frame of the stage that creates a picture as well as seperates the audience?
A) Half Arch
B) Procenium Arch
C) Backdrop
D) The Canvas
Which is NOT a rule of the Bechdel Test
A) They have to talk about something empowering women
B) There has to be two women (preferably with names)
C) The women have to speak to each other
D) They have to talk about something other than a man.
Who wrote Angels in America?
A) Lin Manuel Miranda
B) Julie Taymore
C) Tony Kushner
D) Mart Crowley
Who argued FOR censorship and state control over theatre?
A) Aristotle
B) Euripedes
C) Plato
D) Erasmus
How did Roman theatre differ from Greek theatre?
A) The Romans only had gladiators
B) The Romans didn't sing or dance
C) The Romans thought they were better philosophers
D) The Romans wanted to know how something worked, not why it should work.
Where should a thesis statement go in an essay?
A) At the beginning of the essay
B) At the end of the essay
C) At the end of the first paragraph
D) It is not included in the essay.
The Neo Classical Ideal was modeled after which work?
A) Aristotle's Poetics
B) Sophecle's Diametrics
C) Erasmu's Utopia
D) Madea's Essays
Where did early Commedia Dell'arte performances take place?
A) In churches
B) In theatres
C) Wherever there was an audience
D) In tennis courts
Which of these is NOT a Jukebox Musical?
A) Dear Evan Hansen
B) Mean Girls
C) Bettlejuice
D) Legally Blond
What is color concious casting?
A) Casting that pretends everyone is blind to race
B) Casting that takes into consideration the race of an actor and if that influences a role.
C) Casting based on the colors used in a show
D) Casting only races to play parts they originally were written to be.
What is the highest grossing musical of all time?
A) Hamilton
B) The Lion King
C) Anastasia
D) The Spiderman Musical
How many times should a designer read a script?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 1
D) 0
What is the name of the model scenic designers create?
A) Black Card Model
B) Paper Model
C) White card model
D) Draft
What type of theatre often feature dreamlike settings?
A) Realism
B) Musical Theatre
C) Brechtian
D) Surrealism
Which of the following playwrights was known as a surrealist?
A) Berchtol Brecht
B) Roger Vitrac
C) Tony Kushner
D) Getta Gabler
Who created the theatre of cruelty?
A) Berchtol Brecht
B) Antonin Artaud
C) Lin Manuel Miranda
D) Alfred Jarry
Which playwright was a major part of the DADAist movement?
A) Alfred Jarry
B) Getta Gabler
C) Hugo Ball
D) Roger Vitrac
Romanticism put an emphasis on
A) Emotion
B) Realism
C) Truth
D) Dreams
Which of the following did NOT see a revival of Shakespeare?
A) Romanticism Era
B) Restoration Era
C) Modern Era
D) Classical Era
Who do some contemporary scholars belive actually wrote the works credited to Shakespeare?
A) Edward De Vere
B) Elizabeth 1st
C) Richard Burbage
D) Thomas Moore
Which of the following is a romanticism play?
A) Hamlet
B) Faust
C) Hamilton
D) Julius Caesar
The Zanni is:
A) A comedic style
B) The name of a strobing light
C) A Commedia Del'arte stock character
D) A writer in italian renaissance times.
Historical dramas that feature folklore of a country is considered which type of theatre?
A) Romanticism
B) Surrealism
C) Nationalism
D) Childrens Theatre
Henrik Ibsen wrote which iconic play about womens rights?
A) Sylvia
B) Run, Women, Run
C) Fun Home
D) A Dolls House
Which Country did NOT have a Golden Age of theatre?
A) France
B) England
C) Spain
D) America
Which style of theatre was obsessed with supernatural elements?
A) Surrealism
B) DADA'ism
C) Realism
D) Romanticism
Which style of theatre realies on readymade or found objects?
A) DADA'ism
B) Realism
C) Surrealism
D) Brechtian
Which countries theatre had a strong emphasis on military and honor?
A) England
B) France
C) Spain
D) Italy
Which was a popular subcategory of Comedia?
A) Historical Fiction
B) Sword and Hat
C) Shakespeare
D) Cloak and Dagger
Spanish Corrales were build into the sides of?
A) Churches
B) Houses
C) Trees
D) Courtyards
Which medieval country allowed women on stage to perform if they were married to an actor?
A) Spain
B) England
C) Italy
D) Greece
Which era did England see no new works written in?
A) Elizabethan
B) Restoration Era
C) Medieval
D) Romantic
Which monarch reinstated theatre after he was given the monarchy back?
A) Elizabeth I
B) Henry VIII
C) Philip II
D) Charles II
To open a theatre during the English restoration era, you needed
A) Permission from the church
B) Letter of recommendation
C) Royal Patent
D) 500 pounds
Were women allowed into the audience for greek plays?
A) Yes
B) We do not know, records conflict
C) No
D) Women were not allowed in greece
Which religion banned theatre after the death of Elizabeth 1st in England?
A) Puritans
B) Catholics
C) Protestants
D) Church of England
Which group found restoration comedy to be immoral?
A) The Noble Class
B) The upper class
C) The royal class
D) The growing middle class
The piece of cut metal that goes in front of a light to create texture
A) Gobo
B) Atmosphere
C) Gel
D) Texturizer
Which era rewrote Shakespeares tragedies into comedies to help with emotional healing?
A) Medieval
B) Classical
C) Restoration
D) Modern
