Year 8 Summer Exams

Question 1

How should scripts be written?

Answer 1

Scripts should be written in the present tense

Question 2

What must you include in a script?

Answer 2

Include the act and scene, number at the top

Question 3

What should you add to a script?

Answer 3

Add a description of the scene, setting, characters and props at the start

Question 4

What should be written in italics?

Answer 4

Stage directions should be written in italics

Question 5

What do you not need to write in a script?

Answer 5

You don’t need to write ‘said Tom’

Question 6

Where should the character’s name be in the script?

Answer 6

The character’s name should be in bold to the left of the page with each new piece of dialogue beginning alongside it

Question 7

What must you include in a script?

Answer 7

Include stage directions to advise the actors how things are said or actions which should be performed. These should be inserted at the place where they are required

Question 8

Where should the action take place?

Answer 8

The action should take place in one setting, or else it becomes a new scene.

Question 9

List any musicals that you know?

Answer 9

Mary Poppins, Annie, Oliver, Hairspray, The Sound Of Music, Mama-Mia, Wicked

Question 10

What kind of a childhood did Charles Dickens have?

Answer 10

Charles dickens did not have a happy childhood

Question 11

Who wrote Oliver?

Answer 11

Charles Dickens

Question 12

Who was Fagin?

Answer 12

Fagin was the elderly criminal in the ‘gang’.

Question 13

What can you find that was used as a topic in Oliver Twist?

Answer 13

You can find the satire used as a topic in Oliver Twist.

Question 14

What was Oliver Twist probably inspired from?

Answer 14

It was probably inspired by the Robert Blincoe’s story

Question 15

Since when did people know the story of Oliver Twist?

Answer 15

People know the story of Oliver Twist since it is very popular all over the world

Question 16

How many characters are there in Oliver Twist?

Answer 16

7

Question 17

Who was the leader of the criminal of young boys?

Answer 17

Fagin

Question 18

When was Oliver Twist published?

Answer 18

1838

Question 19

Name the main characters in Oliver?

Answer 19

Oliver, Nancy, Mr. Brownlow, Fagin, Mr. Bumble, Bill Sykes and Artful Dodger.

Question 20

Give a short description of Annie?

Answer 20

Annie is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day, Annie is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire Daddy Warbucks. One week turns into many, and the only person standing in the way of Annie’s fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage.

Question 21

How did the studio attract slightly older audience?

Answer 21

The studio wanted to attract slightly older audience do the added the lines “Goddamn it!” and “Come back here ya’ goddamned kid!”

Question 22

Who was offered the role of rooster in Annie?

Answer 22

Steve Martin was offered the role of Rooster but turned it down because he and Bernadette Peters had just Brocken up and he felt it would be too painful to work together

Question 23

Who auditioned for the part of Rooster, but didn’t get it?

Answer 23

Drew Barrymore

Question 24

Who was almost cast as Annie?

Answer 24

Kristen Chenoweth was almost cast as Annie but was eventually turned down because of her thick Southern accent

Question 25

Who desperately wanted the role of Rooster Hannigan?

Answer 25

Mick Jagger desperately wanted the role of Rooster Hannigan but was passed over for Tim Curry

Question 26

Though Annie was the #10 top grossing film of 1982 what did the movie not do?

Answer 26

Though it was the #10 top grossing film of 1982 the movie didn’t even turn a profit because it was very expensive to make.

Question 27

How many young actresses interviewed to play the part of Annie?

Answer 27

8,000

Question 28

What was the character Annie initially?

Answer 28

The character of Annie, created by Chicago Tribune comic artist Harold Gray, was initially a boy named “Little Orphan Otto”. His editor advised him to change the gender so that the character could reference the poem “Little Orphan Annie” by Whitcomb Riley.