Question 1

The broad spectrum approach includes performances in which of the following contexts?
A) dance
B) everyday life
C) sport
D) theatre
E) all of the above

Accepted Answer

The broad spectrum approach includes performances in all of the above contexts, which are dance, everyday life, sport, and theatre.

Question 2

Social media users communicate in highly performative ways mainly because:
A) users no longer need to be highly literate.
B) users can creatively reveal or mask identities.
C) users need to communicate in the dominate language of English.
D) hypertext has replaced traditional literacy.

Accepted Answer

Social media users have the ability to present themselves in a way that is creatively revealing or masking, which leads to performative communication. The other options given are not relevant to why social media communication is performative.

Question 3

Performance Studies programs exist:
A) only in the U.S.
B) only in the U.S. and the U.K.
C) in several countries all over the world.
D) only in North America and Europe.

Accepted Answer

Performance Studies programs can be found in various countries around the world, reflecting the global interest in the interdisciplinary field that encompasses the study of performance in all its forms.

Question 4

In Renaissance Europe the widely accepted notion that the world was a great theatre was called:
A) the mirror stage.
B) the republic.
C) theatrum mundi.
D) the performative.

Accepted Answer

The phrase "theatrum mundi" (Latin for "world theater") was a widely accepted Renaissance concept that viewed the world as a stage on which humanity acted out its various roles and dramas.

Question 5

One criticism of Performance Studies claims that the field is:
A) imperialistic.
B) closed-minded.
C) too abstract.
D) out of touch with the latest theories.

Accepted Answer

The criticism that Performance Studies is imperialistic suggests that the field has a tendency to appropriate the cultural practices of other communities and groups without proper acknowledgement or sensitivity to their origins and meanings. This can come across as a desire to exert power or control over these practices, rather than engage with them from a place of mutual respect and understanding.

Question 6

To call Performance Studies an interdisciplinary field means that it is:
A) run by a critical mass of scholars.
B) resistant to any single system of knowledge, values, or subject matter.
C) in the formative years of its development.
D) subject to the rules of a variety of disciplines.

Accepted Answer

Performance Studies draws from a wide range of disciplines, including theater, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and more. It resists fitting into any one particular framework, instead embracing multiple perspectives and valuing diverse forms of knowledge and subject matter.

Question 7

Which of these does Dwight Conquergood not cite as a key perspective of Performance Studies at Northwestern University?
A) Analysis
B) Asymmetry
C) Accomplishment
D) Application

Accepted Answer

Dwight Conquergood identified key perspectives of Performance Studies that include Analysis, Accomplishment, and Application, but not Asymmetry.

Quiz 1: What Is Performance Studies

The broad spectrum approach includes performances in which of the following contexts?

Social media users communicate in highly performative ways mainly because:

Performance Studies programs exist:

In Renaissance Europe the widely accepted notion that the world was a great theatre was called:

One criticism of Performance Studies claims that the field is:

To call Performance Studies an interdisciplinary field means that it is:

Which of these does Dwight Conquergood not cite as a key perspective of Performance Studies at Northwestern University?