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History of Theatrical Forms and its Evolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It means "place of seeing" but it is more than a building where performance take place.

(a)  

2.

It dealt with tragic events and have an unhappy ending specially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

(a)  

3.

These plays contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood of a serious play with a happy ending.

(a)  

4.

The usual theme for these theater plays were chariots races, gladiators and public executions.

a)

GREEK THEATER

b)

ROMAN THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

5.

Theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe during this era. To keep the theater alive, minstrels though denounced by the church, performed in markets, public places and festivals.

a)

GREEK THEATER

b)

ROMAN THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

6.

It is characterized by a return of Classical Greek Roman arts and culture.

a)

GREEK THEATER

b)

ROMAN THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

7.

A theater that begun around 700 BC with festivals honoring their gods.

a)

GREEK THEATER

b)

ROMAN THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

8.

The theater crew uses machine for especial effects and scene changes which may be changed in a matter of seconds with use of ropes and pulleys.

a)

BAROQUE THEATER

b)

ROMAN THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

9.

The main concept of their play was to entertain and teach lesson and is characterized by grandiosity.

a)

BAROQUE THEATER

b)

NEOCLASSICAL THEATER

c)

ROMANTIC ERA THEATER

d)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

10.

The following are the types of Greek Theater, EXCEPT ONE.

a)

TRAGEDY

b)

ROMANCE

c)

COMEDY

d)

SATYR

11.

It is an artform in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score.

(a)  

12.

It a large, open-air structures constructed on the sloped of hills and consisted of three main elements: orchestra, skene and audience.

(a)  

13.

Melodrama and operas became the most popular theatrical forms during this period.

a)

ROMANTIC ERA THEATER

b)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

ROMAN TEATER

14.

Innovation of stage: proscenium, backdrops, commedia dell'arte

a)

ROMANTIC ERA THEATER

b)

RENAISSANCE THEATER

c)

MEDIEVAL THEATER

d)

ROMAN TEATER

15.

Dramatic work that puts characters in a lot of danger in order to appeal to the emotions and in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action.

a)

TRAGEDY

b)

COMEDY

c)

MELODRAMA

d)

OPERA