Test I for Introduction to Theatre 121. Your reading and videoing viewing should have prepared you for answering the following questions. Feel free to use your notes, book, and other readings, and Internet searching to help you come up with the best answer. Really, for most of these questions, thinking it through will lead you to the best answer.
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Dance, opera
Opera, film
Theatre, film
Film, television
Theatre, opera
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Music
Painting
Sculpture
Opera
Novel
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Dependence on impersonation
Relationship with audiences
Reliance on skill
Self-awareness as performers
Immediacy
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Reliance on music
Dependence on performers in space
Relationship to a written text
Ephemeral quality
B and d
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Degree of groupness
Size
Ability to influence performance
Social class
All of the above
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Theatre is a social art
Theatre audiences are part of society at large
Theatre audiences are groups of people rather than individuals
Theatre audiences are ephemeral
Theatre audiences have permission
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Stood an ovation
Taken an encore
Milked his audience
Taken a bow
Given a permission
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Crying
Coughing
Laughing
Clapping
Nothing
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Stood an ovation
Given an encore
Milded her audience
Taken a bow
Given a permission
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Are different from human beings
Are inventions of a playwright
Function within a plot
A and b only
A, b, and c
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The plot
What the character says about him- or herself
What the character does
A, b, and c
B and c only
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Antagonist
Raisonneur
Foil
Confidant
Leading lady
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Given circumstance
Style
Abstraction
Surprise
Convention
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Given circumstance
Style
Abstraction
Surprise
Convention
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The art of theatre
The play itself
The contents of the program
The inside of the theatre auditorium
All of the above
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Abstraction
Convention
Given circumstance
Suspense
Surprise
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Story
Character
Idea
Music
Spectacle
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Assisting in the selection of plays
Designing posters for plays
Reading an evaluating new plays
Translating plays
Doing historical research for the director
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Theorist
Critic
Dramaturg
Public relations person
Reviewer
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Semiotics
Deconstruction
Feminism
Aristotle
Langer
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Discontinuity
Socially shaped by people
Socially shaped truth
Differences
History as progressive
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Semiotics
Deconstruction
Feminism
Aristotle
Langer
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Work with already established playwrwights
Select plays that have already been successfully produced
Select small-cast, limited-set shows
All of the above
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Never used before the twentieth century
Where acting is more important than scenery
Where the curtain hides the scene changes
Where the audience sits all around the action
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Good theatre spaces are found only in theatre buildings
Proscenium stages are old-fashioned and unusuable
In some theatre spaces, no curtain is used
The best theatre space is the one most like Broadway's
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Children's, political, and Off-Broadway theatre
Broadway, dinner, and educational theatre
The road, dinner, and Broadway theatre
Educational, political, and Broaway theatre
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New plays, higher costs, training programs
New plays, varied repertory, child actors
Classic repertory, jobs for teachers, political action
New plays, varied repertory, job opportunities
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Theatre meant to teach the audience
Theatre for students
Amateur theatre since World War Two
Theatre in college, universities, and schools
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Book writer
Lyricist
Play doctor
Playwright
None of the above
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It carries the meaning of the play
It substitues for the action of a play
It distinguishes one character from another
It mediates the tempo of the actions
It helps externalize the action of the play
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Human actions
Records of human actions
Responses to human actions
Replicas of human actions
None of the above
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It is on stage in front of an audience
It has been turned over to the director
It has been rehearsed by the actor and their lines have been memorized
It is given to the producer
The playwright has completed the writing of it
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In a regional theatre
In an Off-Broadway theatre
In a Broadway theatre
In a university theatre
In a new play festival
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Be entertaining
Use familiar dramatic conventions
Use familiar theatrical conventions
Be highly innovative
Repeat features of past successes
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Given circumstances
Objectives
Superobjectives
Tendencies
None of the above
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Objectives
Motivations
Superobjectives
Through lines
Tendencies
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Relax
Center
Give and take
Play
All of the above
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A personal acquaintance with the author
A passionate commitment to the play
A desire to direct the major idea in the play
An actor friend just right for the major role
A strong visual image of one scene in the play
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First rehearsal
Unit rehearsal
Technical rehearsal
Dress rehearsal
Preview
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Upstage right
Upstage left
Downstage right
Downstage left
None of the above
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Coaching actors
Blocking
Supervising public relations
Scheduling rehearsals
Monitoring budgets
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Is used more sparingly than movement in real life
Can be varied by direction, speed, and amount
Should carry meaning to an audience
All of the above
Only b and c
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She ran rings around him
He was way off in the blue
He came between them
He is at the center of things
She rose to the occassion
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