Taming of the Shrew

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Q1: Wedding scene can be viewed as a crisis point in the play…where did the director choose to place this scene considering it’s ‘high-drama’ and cliffhanger appeal?

Answer 1

Option 2: End of Act I

Question 2

Q2: Complications in the script are also known as what?

Answer 2

Opt 3: Forwards

Question 3

Q3: A less formal approach to exposition that is more integrated into the play (backstory, current situation is revealed through dialogue like a phone call).

Answer 3

Opt 1: modern Exposition

Question 4

Q4: What bests describes the aesthetic style of the set?

Answer 4

Opt 4: Selective Realism

Question 5

Q5: Secondary plots that usually mirror the main plot. Resolved just before the main plot.

Answer 5

Opt 1: Subplot

Question 6

Q6: Dialogue that describes the backstory

Answer 6

Opt 2: Exposition

Question 7

Q7: Which stock character is represented by Gremio? (photo with him, Baptista, and Tranio (as Lucentio).

Answer 7

Opt 3: Pantalone

Question 8

Q8: Point of the story where the plot begins.

Answer 8

Opt 4: Point of attack

Question 9

Q9: Qualifiers that describe physical activity onstage.

Answer 9

Opt 2: Stage directions

Question 10

Q 10: What recurring comic convention was used to highlight the gaiety and hospitable ethos of Padua?

Answer 10

Opt 2: crowds cheering from the wings of the stage.

Question 11

Q 11: Further development of the plot in which ‘problems’ occur…

Answer 11

Opt 4: complication

Question 12

Q 12: The highest point of dramatic tension

Answer 12

Opt 3: climax

Question 13

Q 13: Who is the character in the middle?

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Opt 4: Baptista, a rich gemtleman from Padua

Question 14

Q 14: ______(symbolic): timeframe in which the story takes place; limited by playwright; can be expaned or compressed

Answer 14

Opt 4: Dramatic time

Question 15

Q 15: ________(actual): the literal amount of time it takes to perform the play

Answer 15

Opt 4: Performance time

Question 16

Q 16: Which BEST describes the actual time of the Taming of the Shrew?

Answer 16

Opt 2: 2 hours

Question 17

Q 17: In this scene, Bianca is getting ready to marry Petruchio.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Q 19: Plot is NOT the same thing as story

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Q 20: Plot must contain “______” and “______”.

Answer 19

Opt 2: acton, conflict

Question 20

Q21: The _______ is the main character… not necessarily the ‘good guy’.

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Opt 2: protagonist

Question 21

Q 22:

(a) Long period of time?
(b) Limited characters?
(c) Limited locations?
(d) Uses subplots?
(e) Taming of the Shrew?
(f) One protagonist / one antagonist
(g) Antigone
(h) Plots do not shape the play
(i) A lot of characters
(j) Takes place over a short period of time

Answer 21

(a) Episodic
(b) Climatic
(c) Climatic
(d) Episodic
(e) Episodic
(f) Climatic
(g) Climatic
(h) Situational
(i) Episodic
(j) Climatic

Question 22

Q 23: If you were editing a critical review based on the Taming, whic of the following passages would be MOST accurate?

Opt 1: …climactic…a reluctant protagonist…

Opt 2: …situational…two reluctant protagonists…

Opt 3: …episodic…two reluctant protagonists

Opt 4: ….episodic…two reluctant antagonists

Answer 22

Opt 3: …episodic…two protagonists

Question 23

Q 24: Based on minimized critical analyssi of Taming, which thesis best describes the play?

Opt 1: …naturalism… climactic journey… follows Bianca… confines of father’s Verona villa…

Opt 2: …selective realism… episodic journey… follows Kate… multiple locations….

Opt 3: …naturalism… episodic journey… follows Bianca…confines of father’s Verona villa…

Opt 4: …slective realism… episodic journey… follows Kate… solely in her father’s Padua villa…

Answer 23

Opt 2: …selective realism…follows Kate…multiple locations….

Question 24

Q 25: From the actors’ perspectives, which part of the stage would you find the musicians?

Answer 24

Opt 2: stage left

Question 25

Q 26: Some ensemble actors were holding cherry blossoms… what term is used to define the is “attempt at realism”?

Answer 25

Opt 4: selective realism

Question 26

Q 27: The Taming performance stage can best be described as a ___________ stage.

Answer 26

Opt 1: Proscenium

Question 27

Q28: …Italian theatre and it stock characters…(________ - the old man, Gremio)…

Answer 27

Opt 4: Pantalone

Question 28

Q 29: Taming was staged… who was known for breaking the “_____ ______” with soliloquies and asides.

Answer 28

Opt 3: fourth wall

Question 29

Q 30: Who is the character in the right of this photo?

Answer 29

Opt 3: Tranio, a servant from Verona

Question 30

Q 31: Name the Genre/Type of theatre

(a) Suspension of natural laws / social order v. the individual
(b) 2 types: classical and modern
(c) Product of Existentialism (freewill)
(d) Preachy, didactic, no mistaking you’re watching a play
(e) Stanislavsky v. Chekov - the predominant form of theatre for the last 100 years

Answer 30

(a) Comedy
(b) Tradgedy
(c) Theatre of the Absurd
(d) Epic Theatre
(e) Tragicomedy

Question 31

Q 32: Best thesis describing human, social, and aesthetic signifiers coupled with genre?

Opt 1: …opportunistic Petruchio…comical glimpse…misogyny

Opt 2: …opportunistic Petruchio… tragicomic glimpse… misandry

Opt 3: …opportunistic Hortensio…tragic glimpse…misogyny

Opt 4: …opportunistic Petruchio…epic glimpse… misandry

Answer 31

Opt 1: …opportunistic Petruchio…comical glimpse…misogyny

Question 32

Q 33: Thesis… Human, social, aesthetic, and entertainment?

Opt 1: …Bianca realizes… “Shrew’s SUBPLOT”…

Opt 2: …Kate realizes… “Shrew’s SUBPLOT”

Opt 3: …Kate never realizes… “Shrew’s SUBPLOT”

Opt 4: …Kate realizes …“Shrew’s PLOT”

Answer 32

Opt 2: …Kate realizes…“Shrew’s SUBPLOT”