Deck 7: Theater

Question 1

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ arrogance

Answer 1

20

Question 2

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ a feeling of calm in the aftermath of great emotion

Answer 2

9

Question 3

____ 1.Of primary importance in tragedy is the death of the main character.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ Mrs. Squeamish and Lady Fidget

Question 5

____ 4. Arrogance is the character flaw most often found in the protagonist of Greek tragedies.

Question 6

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Question 7

____ 3. Ibsen wrote his thriller Ghosts hoping to make money after the financial failure of A Doll's House.

Question 8

____ 2. In the second part of Shakespeare's Henry V, the newly crowned king halts the Coronation to embrace his old friend Falstaff.

Question 9

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
slammed a door and shocked an audience

Question 10

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ Waiting for Godot

Question 11

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ Arthur Miller

Question 12

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ Tartuffe

Question 13

____ 5. Farce lacks three-dimensional characters.

Question 14

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ Death of a Salesman

Question 15

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ what Bertolt Brecht hoped to induce in his audiences

Question 16

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ murders children in revenge

Question 17

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ the world's first theater critic, he analyzed tragic drama

Question 18

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ makes fun of a particular work or genre

Question 19

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ an actor alone on stage speaks thoughts out loud

Question 20

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
1. Thornton Wilder
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Our Town
4. parody
5. Arthur Miller
6. Konstantin Stanislavsky
7. William Shakespeare
8. A View from the Bridge
9. catharsis
10. Chekhov
11. King Lear
12. Nora
13. alienation
14. Medea
15. soliloquy
16. Moliere
17. Aristotle
18. conventions
19. William Wycherley
20. hubris
21. expressionism
___ the rules audiences are asked to accept

Question 21

The main character in Wycherley's The Country Wife

A) is allowed access to married women with their husbands' permission.
B) hides under the beds of married women until their husbands go off to work.
C) pretends to married women that he is now in holy orders and is willing to hear their confessions.
D) drinks his employer's wine and blames his employer's wife.
E) hides a man's wife in a laundry basket.

Question 22

The plays of Chekov feature

A) all-female casts.
B) melodramatic climaxes and contrived happy endings.
C) unrhymed but rhythmic verse.
D) lack of well-made play structure.
E) Theater of Alienation.

Question 23

____ 9. At the end of Medea, the title character recognizes her error in one of the theater's famous speeches of repentance.

Question 24

____ 12. Verisimilitude in the theater means that there is an attempt to make scenery and dialogue look and sound like the real world.

Question 25

____ 6. The china episode in The Country Wife is considered one of the most tragic scenes in all of drama.

Question 26

Which of the following does NOT apply to Oedipus?

A) a love story about a man attracted to an older woman only to find out she is his mother.
B) choral comments.
C) a man who kills his father.
D) a protagonist who becomes blind.
E) exemplifies Aristotelian definition of tragedy.

Question 27

____ 11. In the Jean Racine play, Phaedra is married to Theseus but lusts after her gardener.

Question 28

The first recorded comedies were written by Greek tragic playwrights, possibly in order to:

A) send audiences home in a happier state of mind.
B) make money lost on "heavier" plays.
C) quiet down the noisy crowd.
D) provide employment for actors with acrobatic skills.
E) poke fun at what was playing in rival theaters.

Question 29

Serious criticism aimed at the betterment of society but accomplished through laughter:

A) parody
B) irony
C) tragedy
D) satire
E) Theater of Cruelty

Question 30

Racine's Phaedraadded to the theater the element of

A) suspense.
B) sexuality.
C) the inner life.
D) alienation.
E) satire.

Question 31

____ 10. By the time the curtain falls on a traditional comedy like Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman, the fool comes to a realization of his foolishness.

Question 32

Willy Loman is

A) an Irish dramatist.
B) a stock character.
C) an assistant to Falstaff.
D) a man obsessed with success.
E) one of the arch villains of melodrama.

Question 33

Never found in Elizabethan theater:

A) all-male cast
B) female performers
C) dialogue in verse
D) audience drawn from more than one social class
E) actors alone on stage but talking anyway

Question 34

____ 15. Double entendre is the French term for the Elizabethan aside, spoken to the audience but supposedly not heard by others in the scene.

Question 35

____ 13. In the Elizabethan theater,female roles were played by boys or men.

Question 36

Least likely to be found in the theater of ancient Athens:

A) a character with a name familiar to the audience
B) song and dance
C) a rowdy farce
D) an actor wearing a mask
E) performances suitable for the different seasons of theater operation

Question 37

The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

A) standards in modern British education.
B) a scandalous royal family.
C) a con man who falsifies his family background.
D) a love affair between a high school principal and a newly hired teaching assistant.
E) King George III and the American Revolution.

Question 38

____ 14. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman makes masterful use of flashbacks.

Question 39

____ 7. In Shakespeare's plays emotions are discussed but never shown.

Question 40

____ 8. The central theme ofThe History Boys is whether education has any validity.

Question 41

The commedia dell'arte specialized in

A) reviving the work of Aristophanes.
B) dialogue with double meanings.
C) action scenes alternating with elaborate ballets.
D) pantomime.
E) puppet shows with hidden political messages.

Question 42

Author of A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play about an African American family:

A) Tony Kushner
B) Thornton Wilder
C) Lorraine Hansberry
D) August Wilson
E) Tennessee Williams

Question 43

The dramatic enactment of scenes from the past is

A) historical drama.
B) flashback.
C) expressionism.
D) no longer implemented.
E) Elizabethan drama.

Question 44

Considered by Aristotle to be the most tragic of the Greek dramatists:

A) Euripides
B) Aeschylus
C) Phidias
D) Plato
E) Sophocles

Question 45

All of the following are themes of Angels in Americaexcept:

A) political and religious corruption.
B) the decline of the family.
C) the deterioration of the environment.
D) gay rights.
E) the tragic lives of people with ordinary jobs