Deck 14: Then and Now Version the Dark Ages to the Dawn of the Renaissance

Question 1

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 1

Tropes

Question 2

Everyman is an example of a _____ play.

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

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

Question 5

Who performed in Mystery plays?

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

Question 6

Like the early Christians, Muslims during the Middles Ages ____ support most theatrical activity.

A) Did
B) Did not

Question 7

What type of play is Everyman?

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

The _____ in 398 CE decreed excommunication for all who attended the theater rather than church on holy days.

A) Vatican Council
B) Council of Trent
C) Nicene Council
D) Council of Carthage
E) Avignon Council

Question 11

At noon on October 31, 1517, a monk named Martin Luther (1483-1546) 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 Reformation
D) The Unified Christendom movement
E) The Restoration

Question 12

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

Question 13

In 529 CE who closed the world's oldest school of philosophy (founded by Plato)?

A) Aristotle's Men
B) Hindus
C) Christians
D) Emperor William
E) The Greek Council of the arts

Question 14

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

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

Question 15

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 the above

Question 16

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 17

During the Middle Ages, plays about Noah and the Ark, or the Magi and Christ's birth, were known as _____ plays.

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

Question 18

According to Aristotle, which of his "four causes" was just the material 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 19

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 20

Which play is a comic farce about three shepherds?

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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 24

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

Question 25

What was the name of Plato's famous school of philosophy?

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

What were actors who did not have royal patronage called?