Stop being mean, Hartley--none of these are even close!
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The Peking Opera contained all of the following EXCEPT:
Operatic singing
Acrobatics
Vaudeville-like routines
Simple sets
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The Golden Age of Sanskrit occurred in
Japanese theatre
Chinese theatre
English theatre
Indian theatre
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Willie and Sam are both very interested in what contest in MASTER HAROLD?
Rap contest
Ballroom dancing contest
Beauty contest
Crossword puzzle contest.
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The first real idea of the director as "boss" and interpreter of the play came from:
Saxe-Meiningen
Stanisslavsky
Appia
Sheridan
Meyerhold
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Sebastiano Serlio was famous for:
Writing a famous French play.
Bringing the theories of perspective to the stage.
Building Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
None of the above; it's too late in the semester for this kind of guile!
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The best definition of "Verfremdunskeit," is
Friendship
Alienation
Anti-realism
Expressionism.
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The best definition for Brecht's "lehrstucke," is:
Didactic drama
Learning pieces
Alienation
Epic theatre
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Max Reinhardt, who believed that every play should be done in its own style would best be called a:
Impressionist
Expressionist
Eclecticist
Romanticist
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Adolph Appia and Gordon Craig have had most of their influence in theatre for:
Acting theory
Lighting and set design
dramatic criticism
costumes
reviving the classics
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What prop in HAPPY DAYS is the only one which appears in ACTII?
The toothbrush
The newspaper
The gun
The hairbrush.
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In the Brecht-Weill Opera, the THREEPENNY OPERA, Macsheath is saved and pardoned at the end of the play--this is an example of:
a good story
naturalism, typical of Brecht
a "deus ex machina" ending
none of the above
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Which of the following IS NOT a logical stage location for a scene from an Elizabethan play?
Pit
Arras
Inner Below
Traps
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The "well made play" was really perfected by an English author who wrote over 400 of them according to formula. He was:
Eugene Scribe
Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Wing Pinero
Auguste Compte
Oliver Goldsmith
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Winnie stays in a mound, and Willie lives in
A hole
A shack
Another mound
A trashcan
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Which of the following just finished playing Winnie, in HAPPY DAYS?
Olympia Dukakis
Robin Williams
Jane Fonda
Jessica Tandy
None of the above
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The first actor, according to Greek legend was:
Aristotle
Aristophanes
Thespis
Machis
George
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Stanislavsky and Chekhov disagreed about:
Theatre and its place in the world.
Russian and its place in the world
THE SEA GULL, particularly its set.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD, and what type play it was.
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Ibsen's theme, in many of his plays, including A DOLL'S HOUSE, is the struggle between:
Man and nature (fate)
duty to the nation and duty to God
duty to one's self and duty to others
courage and cowardice.
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Who travels with Everyman to the grave and beyond?
Kindred
Strength
Confession
Good Deeds
Spirit
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One of the best ways to read Shakespeare, according to Scanlon, is:
To buy a modernized edition
To get your porfessor to act out the plays
To read for the story only--at least at first
To read all the footnotes
To read very slowly
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Which of the following would be the most likely to write a play with a mosaic plot?
Shaw
Ibsen
O'Neill
Chekhov
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In response to the rising costs of plays on Broadway, and increasing conservatism on the part of producers, what types of theatres were created?
Little Theatre Movement
Off Broadway
Off Off Broadway
Regional Theatres
All of the above contributed to helping authors get their plays on stage.
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"The more acute the experience, the more -------------- the expression." The best word or phrase to complete this Pinter quote is--
inarticulate
awful
indistinct
confusing
none of the above
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Hally is most upset about what in MASTER HAROLD?
His father
His mother
Racial prejudice
His schoolwork
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The thing which seemed to impress Hartley about both Medieval and Shakespearean staging was:
The traditional approach.
The invention of the proscenium stage
Use of modern lighting ideas.
Incredible flexibility and creativity.
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Ionesco, Becket and Pinter were all called this by Martin Esslin in a book of the same title:
Absurd
Dumb
Neoclassicists
Modernists
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The best definition of PROTAGONIST is
The main character in the play
The most important character in the play
The person the play is named after
The hero of the play
None of the above.
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The two most important kind of plot which Scanlan discussses are:
linear and mosaic
absurdist and realist
tension and release
comedy and tragedy
linear and angular
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Vladimir and Estragon spend most of their time
Fighting
Waiting
Sleeping
Climbing
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Neoclassicists demanded the Unities, which are best summarized as:
Time, gestural dialogue, action
Time, action, place
Linear, conspiracy, plot
Time, opportunity, plot.
None of the above
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This author writes plays which are often absurdist, but wraps them in a seemingly realistic framework. This describes:
Samuel Becket
Harold Pinter
Sam Shepard
AThol Fugard
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An "aside" refers to a theatrical practice wherein:
The actors turn their backs on the audience.
The actors leave the stage
The actors talk abmong themselves.
The actors share conversation with the audience.
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In the cake eating scene between Cecily and Gwendolen, Scanlan uses Merriman and the footman to show:
Why British drama is really funny
How important it is to know who is on stage
How much Emily is need in the scene
Who is servant, and who is master
None of the above.
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The first major government support of the arts in America occurred during the Depression in the 1930s. It was:
The Federal Arts Council
Public Radio
The Federal Theatre Project
The New Deal Theatre.
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Naturalism and Realism are very similar, except:
Realism is only concerned with the five senses.
Nauralism is more scientific
Realism is easier to write about.
Naturalism is more radical, and looks at the "pits" of life.
Realism is more pessimistic.
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Which of the following plays concerns the murder of a black man on a subway?
Albee's SANDBOX
Rabe's STICKS AND BONES
Baraka's DUTCHMAN
Shepard's TRUE WEST
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One type of experimental theatre which occurred especially in the Sixties was:
Happenings
Arena Theatre
Absurdist Theatre
Musical Theatre.
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Gus talks about the sheets "ponging" a bit. He refers to
Their wrinkles
Their smell
Their color
The term does not refer to the sheets at all--you sly devil.
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The most interesting character in a Medieval play would most often be:
God
Moses
Satan
Noah's wife
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The definition of "existentialism," we tossed around in class is best defined as:
There is no meaning to anything no matter what happens.
Man has no meaning except what he can create by his own existence.
There is no God.
Life is absurd and suicide is the obvious answer.
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Moliere's Tartuffe is primarily concerned with:
Religious hypocrisy
atheism
homosexuality
lawyers
doctors
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The "fourth wall," refers to:
the early Greek stage.
Shakespeare's theatre.
Theatre in the round.
The invisible barrier between audience and actor in some styles of plays.
None of the above.
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Which of these plays cannot be performed in the country in which it was written?
THE ODD COUPLE
THE DUTCHMAN
STICKS AND BONES
MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS
THE ROOM
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Which of these organizations controlled most of America's theaters in the early part of the 20th century?
The O'Neills
The Metro-Goldwyn Mayers
The Steinbergs
The Shuberts.
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The three types of Commedia del'arte characters can be divided into:
Masters, women, servants
Lovers, servants, soldiers
Masters, servants, soldiers
Masters, lovers, servants.
Stooges, scoundrels, slaves.
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Noh theatre in Japan is most similar to
Absurdist drama
Commedia del arte
Naturalism
Puppet theatre.
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Mise en scene is best defined as:
The world of the actors
The set
The time period in which the play is done
The total environment of the play--including set, actors, etc.
None of the above--it is a lighting term, as any "bright" person knows!
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Theatre gained a new lease on life during the Renaissance because:
The growth of cities provided population to support it.
Many courts supported theatre and artists to show off their culture.
There were rediscoveries of old classical works.
All of the above, as any average toadstool would know!
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"They gave birth astride of a grave." This quote would most likely express the pessimism of which of the following?
Arthur Miller
August Wilson
Samuel Becket
Harold Pinter.
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Seeing the lights, parts of unpainted scenery, and all sorts of theatrical "underwear," during a show, would most likely happen in a production by:
Meyerhold
O'Neill
Ibsen
Shakespeare
Stanislavsky
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The term "Restoration," actually refers to:
Furniture
King Charles II return to the English throne
King Charles of Sweden
New knowledge, due to printing
None of the above
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Perhaps the most outstanding and successful black playwright in America just won his second Pulitzer, for a play called THE PIANO LESSON. His play FENCES is in your text. He is--
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson
Fred Tally
Arthur Miller
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Maurice Maeterlinck wrote PELLEAS AND MELISANDE which used water to represent all sorts of things. This is an example of
Naturalism
Symbolism
Existentialism
theatricalism
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Robin Williams recently appeared in which of the following famous absurdist plays?
THE CHAIRS
WAITING FOR GODOT
THE ICEBOX
HENRY'S DILEMMA
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Most famous as an acting teacher, his ideas caused a sensation in America, and led to the idea of "method acting."
Meyerhold
Stanislavsky
Chekhov
Bulaowsky
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Willie's problem with Hilda (his girlfriend) seems to be:
Her pregnancy.
His "hidings"
His cussing
His infidelity.
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Which of the following WAS NOT a major contribution to theatre which derived from Italy?
