Theatre Appreciation, Test 1: Part 1

Question 1

True/False: Performance is an activity in which people watch each other.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True/False: In performance, “something done” means what the performers do – for example, a play.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True/False: Actor, audience, thing performed, and performance space exist in a fixed relationship for as long as a performance lasts.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True/False: Self-awareness is necessary to performance.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True/False: Art is artificial.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True/False: All arts unfold through time.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True/False: Theatre exists apart from other arts.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True/False: Because some shows give many performances, it is clear that theatrical performance can be repeated exactly.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True/False: Theatrical performance recalls reality but is more intense.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True/False: Watching a film of a theatrical event is the same as the live experience.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True/False: Film and theatre share their relationship between actors and audiences.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True/False: Film, like theatre, is non-recoverable.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

True/False: An individual theatrical performance can be replicated and repeated.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

True/False: The artificial nature of theatre gives everything put on the stage a heightened sense of reality.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True/False: Art is, by its nature, artificial.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True/False: Theatre, sports, and church services might all be considered performances.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True/False: Football, like theatre, depends heavily on impersonation.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True/False: A basic difference among the performing arts is their different principles of organization.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True/False: Theatre is organized more like ballet than like sculpture.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True/False: With respect to its audiences, theatre is more like film than like television.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True/False: With respect to degree of self-awareness, theatre is more like a riot than a poem.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True/False: With respect to the relationship between performer and audience, theatre is more like television than opera.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

MC: Which of these gathers an audience into a special place but does NOT allow interplay between the audience and the performer?

Answer 23

Film

Question 24

MC: Which does NOT gather its audience into a special place?

Answer 24

Television

Question 25

MC: Arts that can be both replicated and retrieved are:

Answer 25

film, television

Question 26

MC: A boxing match differs most from a theatrical event in it’s:

Answer 26

Replicability

Question 27

MC: Which does theatre most resemble in its principles of organization?

Answer 27

Opera

Question 28

MC: When we say that “all the world’s a stage,” we are:

Answer 28

Using a metaphor

Question 29

MC: Actors differ from jugglers in their:

Answer 29

Dependence on impersonation

Question 30

MC: A rock concert shares with a theatrical event its:

Answer 30

Dependence on performers in space and ephemeral quality

Question 31

MC: A critical difference between performance and theatre is:

Answer 31

The presentation of a character separate from the actor

Question 32

MC: “More intense and concentrated” describes theatre because:

Answer 32

Theatre often presents only those parts of a story that support the dramatic action

Question 33

MC: For theatre to exist you need an actor, a space, and…

Answer 33

An audience