First Quiz

Question 1

These include radio, film, television, and digital streaming

Answer 1

mediated arts

Question 2

Which one is a fixed object?

Answer 2

Walt Whitman’s collection of poems

Question 3

The statue of the Winged Victory at the Louvre Museum in Paris is a

Answer 3

Fixed object

Question 4

Which word does not apply to live theater?

Answer 4

Delayed

Question 5

Which one does not have a transitory nature?

Answer 5

The Winged Victory

Question 6

Uniquely among the arts, theater focuses on one thing and one thing onl:

Answer 6

Human beings (as characters in a play)

Question 7

Some audiences are general, i.e., the thousands attending outdoor productions at Shakespeare festivals. Other audiences are more homogeneous, such as spectators at a high school play. If you attend a production with many other people you know, you’ll likely feel part of the group experience. The information in question 7 relates to what?

Answer 7

How audience composition affects the theatre experience.

Question 8

The theatre most of us will experience requires a degree of distancing, in the same way that all art requires a certain perspective. What is the term for physical or psychological separation or detachment of audience from dramatic action, usually considered necessary for artistic illusion.

Answer 8

Aesthetic distance

Question 9

Illusion may start with the creators of theatre, but it’s completed by the audience. In Macbeth three witches appear; the ghost of Banquo interrupts the banquet.

A flashback is an abrupt movement from the present to the past and back again.

Symbols and metaphors are also seen in theatrical productions.

All these depend upon

Answer 9

The imagination of the audience.

Question 10

In theatre, a realistic element is the one that resembles

Answer 10

Observable reality

Question 11

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!

The preceding lines are from

Answer 11

King Lear by Shakespeare

Question 12

When you attend a play you bring more than your mere presence; you bring a background of personal knowledge and a set of expectations that shape our theatre experience. Which factor isn’t involved in this background and set of expectations?

Answer 12

Your knowledge of Greek tragedies about Oedipus Rex, Electra, Antigone, and more.

Question 13

In the early twentieth century, this developed, and, at first, it was considered a freakish aberration, an unattractive jumble of jagged lines and patches of color with no relation to nature, truth, or anything human. In time, however, this came to be recognized as a genuine movement. The disjointed and fragmentary lines of abstract art seemed to reflect the quality of much of modern life.

Answer 13

Abstract Painting

Question 14

Which one of the following relates to expectations, the variety of experiences in modern theatre?

Answer 14

Broadway and Touring Theatre

Question 15

This one is sometimes known as regional theatre:

Answer 15

Resident professional theatre

Question 16

This is someone who observes theatre and then analyzes and comments on it and ideally serves as a knowledgeable and highly sensitive audience member.

Answer 16

Critic

Question 17

This is a basic stage arrangement and known as the picture frame stage

Answer 17

Proscenium

Question 18

This is a basic stage arrangement that’s sometimes called a circle stage.

Answer 18

Proscenium

Question 19

This one is surrounded on three sides by audience seating

Answer 19

Thrust

Question 20

This term came from the idea of the proscenium opening as a transparent glass through which the audience sees what’s happening within the giant picture frame.

Answer 20

Fourth wall

Question 21

This is slanted downward from the back of the proscenium stage – it’s the portion reserved for the audience.

Answer 21

Front of house

Question 22

In ancient Greek theatre, this was the circular acting area at the base of the hillside amphitheater, but in modern usage, it’s the main floor of the theatre, where the audience sits.

Answer 22

Orchestra

Question 23

“Stage right” and “stage left” mean the right side and the left side of the stage, respectively, as seen from the position or view of

Answer 23

A performer facing the audience

Question 24

The area nearest the audience is known as

Answer 24

Downstage

Question 25

The members of the audience are seated on four sides in a circle. The audience is close to the action onstage. This is a

Answer 25

arena.

Question 26

Which one isn’t a characteristic of the thrust stage?

Answer 26

giant picture frame

Question 27

Which one was developed by the classical Greeks for their tragedies and comedies? An original prototype of this kind of stage is the amphitheater in Epidaurus, Greece.

Answer 27

Thrust

Question 28

Used from the 13th century through the 15th century, religious plays were performed on this type stage. It was a platform on wheels to be moved from venue to venue and the audience stood on three sides. The word “platform” that we use in our vernacular in describing forms of media came from this type. Think of this as an example of the thrust stage during medieval times.

Answer 28

Wagon stage

Question 29

Theatre building of the Spanish golden age, usually located in the courtyard of a series of adjoining buildings:

Answer 29

Corral

Question 30

Who proposed the idea of abolishing the stage and auditorium and replace them with a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theater of the action?

Answer 30

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)

Question 31

This arrangement is sometimes called a corridor stage. The audience sits on opposite sides facing each other. It’s like the catwalk used in fashion shows.

Answer 31

Alley or traverse

Question 32

An environment in which there is more than one playing area

Answer 32

multi-focus theatre

Question 33

In this kind of production, the audience is asked to be actively involved.

Answer 33

Immersive theatre