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CN-Intro to Theatre
Ms. Sottile
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J. Zaza, Principal
Sample Final Exam
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1) Which of these gathers a mass audience into a single space but is not conducive to interaction between
the audience and the performer?
a) Television
b) Film
c) Theatre
d) Opera
e) Ballet
2) Which does theatre most resemble in its principles of organization?
a) Music
b) Painting
c) Sculpture
d) Opera
e) Novel
3) Actors differ from jugglers in their:
a) Dependence on impersonation
b) Relationship with audiences
c) Reliance on skill
d) Self-awareness on performers
e) Immediacy
4) A rock concert shares with a theatrical event its:
a) Reliance on music
b) Dependence on performers in space
c) Relationship to a written text
d) Ephemeral quality
e) B and d
5) A theatre audience differs fundamentally from a television audience in its:
a) Degree of immediacy
b) Size
c) Ability to influence performers
d) Social class
e) All of the above
6) In real life, if we were polite and sensitive, we would not laugh at a person who stuttered badly. In the
theatre, such a character might be intended to provoke much laughter. This is so because:
a) Theatre is a social art
b) Theatre audiences are part of a society at large
c) Theatre audiences are groups of people rather than individuals
d) Theatre audiences are ephemeral
e) Theatre audiences have permission
7) In the midst of a serious play that is succeeding well with an audience, you would expect to hear:
a) Crying
b) Coughing
c) Laughing
d) Clapping
e) Nothing
8) The actor playing Dolly in Hello, Dolly responding to the sustained applause of the audience, sings
another song from the show. She has just:
a) Stood an ovation
b) Given an encore
c) Milded her audience
d) Taken a bow
e) Given a permission
9) Dramatic characters:
a) Are different from human beings
b) Are inventions of a playwright
c) Function with a plot
d) A and b only
e) A, b and c
10) If we want to discover the traits of a character, we should look at:
a) The plot
b) What the characters says about him- or herself
c) What the character does
d) A, b and c
e) B and c only
11) Annie seems to be the only sensible character in a comedy. She is most likely the play’s:
a) Antagonist
b) Ingénue
c) Foil
d) Confidant
e) Leading lady
12) A “practice” that exists between performers and audience members to do things a certain way for the
artistic good of all is called a(n):
a) Given circumstance
b) Style
c) Abstraction
d) Surprise
e) Convention
13) An actor stands in the middle of the stage and talks aloud. None of the other actors on the stage appears
to hear him. He is engaging in an example of a(n):
a) Given circumstance
b) Style
c) Abstraction
d) Surprise
e) Convention
14) Even before a particular performance begins, a prepared member of an audience will probably want to
know something about which of these?
a) The art of theatre
b) The play itself
c) The contents of the program
d) The inside of the theatre auditorium
e) All of the above
15) In a class, students discuss what thoughts and lessons they took away from watching the musical Porgy
& Bess. These students are responding to which of the following?
a) Story
b) Character
c) Idea
d) Music
e) Spectacle
16) Which of the following in NOT a function usually given to a dramaturg:
a) Assisting in the selection of plays
b) Designing poster for plays
c) Reading an evaluating new plays
d) Translating plays
e) Doing historical research for the director
17) The person paid to get an audience into the theatre is most likely the:
a) Theorist
b) Critic
c) Dramaturg
d) Public relations person
e) Reviewer
18) If a theorist is asking questions about gender in performance, he or she is most likely relying on the
theories of:
a) Semiotics
b) Deconstruction
c) Feminism
d) Aristotle
e) Langer
19) To protect their investments, Broadway producers tend to:
a) Work with already established playwrights
b) Select plays that have already been successfully produced
c) Select small-cast, limited –set shows
d) All of the above
20) “Thrust stage” describes a kind of theatre:
a) Never used before the twentieth century
b) Where acting is more important than scenery
c) Where the curtain hides the scene changes
d) Where the audience sits on three sides of the stage
21) “Professional theatre,” in the sense of commercial theatre, is strongest in what grouping?
a) Children’s, political, and Off-Broadway theatre
b) Broadway, dinner, and educational theatre
c) The road, dinner, ad Broadway theatre
d) Educational, political, and Broadway theatre
22) Regional theatre’s contributions include:
a) New plays, higher costs, training programs
b) New plays, varied repertory, child actors
c) Classic repertory, jobs for teachers, political action
d) New plays, varied repertory, job opportunities
23) “Educational theatre” refers to:
a) Theatre meant to teach the audience
b) Theatre for students
c) Amateur theatre since World War Two
d) Theatre in college, universities, and schools
24) The language of a play is important because of all of these EXCEPT:
a) It carries the meaning of the play
b) It substitutes for the action of a play
c) It distinguishes one character from another
d) It mediates the tempo of the actions
e) It helps externalize the action of the play
25) A play is finished when:
a) It is on stage in front of an audience
b) It has been turned over to the director
c) It has been rehearsed by the actor and their lines have been memorized
d) It is given to the producer
e) The playwright has completed the writing of it
26) A new play is LEAST LIKELY to have its first production:
a) In a regional theatre
b) In an Off-Broadway theatre
c) In a Broadway theatre
d) In a university theatre
e) In a new play festival
27) The playwright who gains production in a Broadway theatre will probably NOT:
a) Be entertaining
b) Use familiar dramatic conventions
c) Use familiar theatrical conventions
d) Be highly productive
e) Repeat features of past successes
28) Factors like the age, sex, and social status of a character that an actor might play are:
a) Given circumstances
b) Objectives
c) Superobjectives
d) Tendencies
e) None of the above
29) Successful actors try to avoid having:
a) Objectives
b) Motivations
c) Super objectives
d) Through lines
e) Tendencies
30) Preliminary training of an actor involves learning how to:
a) Relax
b) Center
c) Give and take
d) Play
e) All of the above
31) Of the following, the best directorial springboard would be:
a) A personal acquaintance with the author
b) A passionate commitment to the play
c) A desire to direct the major idea in the play
d) An actor friend just right for the major role
e) A strong visual image of one scene in the play
32) A rehearsal at which costumes are incorporated into the technical elements is called a:
a) First rehearsal
b) Unit rehearsal
c) Technical rehearsal
d) Dress rehearsal
e) Preview
33) If you are in the audience facing the stage, the area of the stage closest to you and on your left is:
a) Upstage right
b) Upstage left
c) Downstage right
d) Downstage left
e) None of the above
34) Which of the following is LEAST LIKELY TO BE a responsibility of a director?
a) Coaching actors
b) Blocking
c) Supervising public relations
d) Scheduling rehearsals
e) Monitoring budgets
35) A scene whose point was that character A had no friends might be blocked based on which of these
sayings?
a) She ran rings around him
b) He was way off in the blue
c) He came between them
d) He is at the center of things
e) She rose to the occasion
36) The basic subject matter of drama is:
a) Scandal
b) Human beings
c) Sex
d) Tragedy
37) A selection and arrangement of scenes from a story is called a:
a) Plot
b) Complication
c) Crisis
38) The first scene of a drama starts the action and sets the tone and style for everything that follows:
a) True
b) False
39) An impediment that is put in a character’s way is called a(n):
a) Complication
b) Obstacle
c) Climax
d) Crisis
40) Economic status, profession, and trade are examples of which characteristic of character?
a) Physical and biological
b) Societal
c) Psychological
d) Moral
41) Objectives of the scene designer do not include:
a) Helping to set the mood and style
b) Developing a design concept
c) Solving practical design problems
d) Assisting in the blocking of the production
42) A stage set should tell the audience:
a) When
b) Where
c) What kind of characters the play is about
d) All of the above
43) A drawing similar to a map in that the viewer is looking down on the plan from above which outlines the
various levels on the stage and indicates the placement of all scenery furniture etc.
a) Ground plan
b) Elevation
c) Projection
d) Proscenium
44) When costumes are rented or taken from inventory of stock, this is known as:
a) Building
b) Pulling
c) Rendering
d) Overdressing
45) When one person mimics of copies another’s vocal patterns, gestures, facial expressions, posture, and
the like, it is called:
a) Willing suspension of disbelief
b) Role reversal
c) Role playing
d) Imitation
46) One of the differences between acting in daily life and acting in theatre is that the actors are always
being:
a) Observed
b) Corrected
c) Distracted
d) Criticized
47) What are the basic tools with which an actor works:
a) Education and experience
b) Body, voice, and imagination
c) Internal external methodologies
d) Stanislavski and Diderot
48) To be heard throughout a theatre, a performer must:
a) Develop resonance and tone
b) Learn to project his or her voice into the audience
c) Balance vocal and physical structures
d) Take a deep breath and shout out his or her lines
49) Who devised a system that could be taught to others for achieving the kind of believability demanded by
the new realistic drama being written in the late 19th century?
a) David Garrick
b) Konstantin Stanislavski
c) Francois Delsarte
d) Henrick Ibsen
50) When a director discovers the spine of a play, he or she has found:
a) The fundamental action or conflict
b) A way to cast the play without using stereotypes
c) A way to eliminate collaborating artists
d) None of the above
51) The concept of style in a theatrical production means:
a) The amount of money spent on costumes and scene design
b) The amount of money spent that classy actors are paid
c) The way in which a play is presented realistically or non-realistically
d) Heightened realism
52) The directorial concept derives from a controlling idea, vision, or point of view which comes from an
understanding of:
a) The period which is indicated in the script or in which the script was written
b) A controlling image or metaphor
c) The spirit and meaning of the play
d) All of the above
53) Which of the following is not one of the six elements of drama mentioned by Aristotle in the Poetics?
a) Action
b) Character
c) Aesthetic distance
d) Dialogue
e) Thought
54) Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the:
a) Audience
b) Press
c) Director
d) None of the above
55) The most significant difference between films and theatre is:
a) The cost
b) The quality of performances
c) The actor-audience relationship
d) Films are a recent invention
56) Greek Tragedies were performed as part of the festival of Dionysus.
a) True
b) False
57) Character’s “zadacha” or objective is the key element to _________’s System of Acting.
a) Diderot
b) Stanislavski
c) Chekov
d) Hagen
e) Meisner
58) Subtext refers to:
a) Unspoken, undescribed goals hidden beneath lines
b) The corrections a playwright makes on a script
c) The scoring of a script
d) None of the above