Greek Drama Test

Question 0

Dionysus is also known as what type of God

Answer 0

Party God

Question 1

Dionysus is the God of

Answer 1

Wine and revelry

Question 2

Dionysus is the son of which God

Answer 2

Zeus

Question 3

Dionysus is mortal true or false

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The first play is a reenactment of who’s life

Answer 4

Dionysus

Question 5

What is the first play called

Answer 5

Festival of Dionysus

Question 6

Who is the father of drama

Answer 6

Thespis

Question 7

Who wrote Oedipus

Answer 7

Sophocles

Question 8

Sophocles is a what

Answer 8

Major playwrite

Question 9

What does tradegy mean

Answer 9

Goat song

Question 10

What is kept off stage in Greek drama

Answer 10

Death and violence

Question 11

Greek dramas have how many settings

Answer 11

1

Question 12

How many people does the theatre of Dionysus seat

Answer 12

17,000

Question 13

The theatre is shaped like a big what

Answer 13

Megaphone

Question 14

What did they put inside of masks to project their voice

Answer 14

Megaphones

Question 15

Where does Oedipus die

Answer 15

Mt citheron

Question 16

What does Oedipus use to claw out his eyes

Answer 16

Brooch

Question 17

Who founded the city of Thebes

Answer 17

Cadmus

Question 18

Cadmus killed Aries what

Answer 18

Serpent

Question 19

What does Oedipus’s name mean

Answer 19

Swollen foot

Question 20

Dramatic irony

Answer 20

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t know

Question 21

The chorus is a what

Answer 21

Ideal spectator- knows how to react

Question 22

To be a tragic hero you have to be of

Answer 22

Noble birth

Question 23

To be a tragic hero you must have a flaw in what

Answer 23

Personality not choice

Question 24

To be a tragic hero you must evoke what out of the audience

Answer 24

Pity