Deck 14: The Dark Ages to the Dawn of the Renaissance

Question 1

Aristotelian Scholasticism was an attempt to synthesize,reconcile,and harmonize what?

A)Theatre and science
B)Art and dance
C)Plato and Aristotle
D)Theatre and Christianity
E)Aristotle's thoughts and Christian theology

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The earliest brief playlets may have grown out of chanted or sung phrases incorporated into Mass as an embellishment or commentary on a religious lesson.What were these chanted or sung phrases called?

Answer 2

Tropes

Question 3

Known as the "the great synthesizer," this man combined the philosophy of Aristotle with the Bible.

A)Thomas Aquinas
B)Frederick of Russia
C)Alexander the Great
D)Pope Leo VI
E)Pope Gregory I

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who performed in mystery plays?

A)Professional actors
B)Trade guilds
C)Clergy and nuns
D)Popes and kings
E)Actors and bishops

Question 5

At noon on October 31,1517,a monk named Martin Luther used the front door of the All Saint's Church at Wittenberg as his personal complaint box.He nailed into the door a list of 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church.This marks the beginning of what?

A)The London Theatre movement
B)The Enlightenment
C)The Protestant Reformation
D)The Unified Christendom movement
E)The Restoration

Question 6

Early tropes were performed…

A)By bands of traveling entertainers
B)In Latin
C)During Easter services
D)By priests and nuns
E)On the Festival of Corpus Christi

Question 7

Which play is a comic farce about three shepherds?

Question 8

The Latin fabulare romanice means to speak in the Roman way.This is where we get languages like French,Italian,Portuguese,and Romanian.These languages are called...

Question 9

According to Aristotle,which of his "four causes" was just the physical stuff of the world? (For example,a block of marble that has yet to be made into a statue.)

A)Efficient cause
B)Material cause
C)Formal cause
D)Final cause

Question 10

The artistic and intellectual achievements of Muslim Spain were represented by its...

A)Theatres
B)Libraries
C)?Museums
D)?Universities

Question 11

The time during which theatre went underground and companies of jugglers,storytellers,and musicians traveled around Europe is known as the…

A)Dark Ages
B)Middle Ages
C)High Middle Ages
D)Enlightenment
E)Reformation

Question 12

According to the authors of the text,the years ____ are most associated with the High Middle Ages.

A)1000-1200
B)1200-1450
C)1450-1600
D)1600-1725
E)1725-1820

Question 13

____ plays tell stories about the lives of the saints.

A)Morality
B)Mystery
C)Miracle
D)Mirth

Question 14

What type of play is Everyman?

A)Mystery
B)Miracle
C)Morality
D)Tragedy
E)Melodrama

Question 15

What type of play is The Second Shepherd's Play?

A)Mystery
B)Miracle
C)Morality
D)Tragedy
E)Melodrama

Question 16

What is the dramatic device that allows an actor to represent or symbolize an idea or a moral principle?

Question 17

According to Aristotle,which of his "four causes" was that which brings it all together,the "end in mind" or the purpose served.

A)Final cause
B)Material cause
C)Formal cause
D)Efficient cause

Question 18

In the High Middle Ages,small secular plays became popular.They were placed between other forms of entertainments,and so they were called...

Question 19

From the Latin "studius humanitatis," meaning the "studies of mankind," these people idolized the Romans and Greeks.

A)The Students of Humanities
B)Humanists
C)The Reformation Student Movement
D)The Eastern Orthodox Church
E)None of these choices

Question 20

During the Middle Ages,bakers were most likely to stage a mystery play about...

A)Noah's ark
B)The Magi
C)The Last Supper
D)Jonah and the whale

Question 21

The horse drawn wagons used during the Middle Ages to facilitate the performance of the plays at that time were called...

Question 22

Writers of mystery plays rarely put their names on the scripts so as not to show the sin of…

Question 23

On Tuesday,May 29,1453,what city fell after a six-week siege?

Question 24

When a series of mystery plays about events in the Bible were joined together,they were known as ____________________ plays.

Question 25

What are the primary types of drama popular during the Middle Ages? Give some examples.How do these types of drama reflect the time period in which they were most popular? What do they tell us about the "world view" of the people living at that time?

Question 26

How did the theatre "make a comeback" after the first millennium? What are some examples? Why do you think that after hundreds of years of persecution by the Christians that this was the "right time" for theatre to begin to reassert itself into the culture of the times?

Question 27

In 1264,Pope Urban announced that plays would be allowed on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday,which was also called the...

Question 28

Which invention was generally distrusted by the clergy because some thought it might be a vehicle for subversive ideas?

Question 29

Which group Latinized their names,held up Socrates as a "saint," and even burned candles before busts of Aristotle and Plato?

Question 30

What period of European history was a time of rebellion and rebirth? (In fact,its name means "rebirth.")

Question 31

Who was the first known woman playwright who took the plays of Roman playwright Terence as a model and wrote plays about the lives of saintly women?

Question 32

As Europe moved from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance,drama began to flourish.What was this time period like for those living then? What aspects of the culture at this time encouraged the development of secular drama?

Question 33

The "dance of death" common in paintings and frescoes for many years was inspired by…