THEATER 101 CHAPTER 12 QUIZ #11
QUIZ #11 - Tragedy and Other Serious Drama

 

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  1. Other than tragedy, the other forms of serious drama include...

    2. Your answer:
    Heroic drama, domestic drama, and melodrama
    Revenge tragedy, melodrama, and farce
    Melodrama, domestic drama, and satire
    Heroic drama, commedia dell'arte, and domestic drama

  2. The two types of tragedy are:

    3. Your answer:
    Serious tragedy and light tragedy
    Ironic tragedy and satirical tragedy
    Traditional tragedy and modern tragedy
    Modern tragedy and post-modern tragedy

  3. The characteristics of traditional tragedy include tragic heroes and heroines, tragic circumstances, tragic irretrievability, and

    4. Your answer:
    a) Acceptance of responsibility
    b) Tragic effect
    c) Tragic verse
    d) Death of the hero
    e) a and c
    f) b and d

  4. The effect of tragedy is seen in two contradictory responses. One is negative, seeing the world as cruel and uncompromising. The other...

    5. Your answer:
    Is positive, discovering the nature of human existence.
    Is negative, triggering feelings of anger and rejection in the audience
    Is positive, finding optimism in the manner in which the heroes and heroines meet their fate with dignity
    Is negative, creating feelings of repulsion for the amount of violence represented onstage

  5. The time period for modern tragedy begins...

    6. Your answer:
    In the late 18th century
    In the early 19th century
    In the late 19th century
    In the early 20th century

  6. Which American playwright argued that there can be 'tragedy of the common man'?

    7. Your answer:
    Tennessee Williams
    Arthur Miller
    Henrick Ibsen
    Eugene O'Neill

  7. What distinguishes modern tragedy from traditional tragedy?

    8. Your answer:
    The use of blood and staging devices to present dead bodies
    The use of the common man rather than royalty or nobility as the main characters
    The use of violence onstage as opposed to offstage
    The use of society as the main character

  8. Constantin Stanislavski referred to the emotions, tensions, and thoughts not expressed directly in the text as...

    9. Your answer:
    Objectives
    Subtext
    Beats
    Goals

  9. Heroic drama differs from tragedy in two ways. The first is in having a happy ending. The second is...

    10. Your answer:
    Assuming a negative approach to individual struggles, resulting in massive onstage violence
    Assuming a pessimistic world view in which all is negative even with a happy ending
    Assuming a basically optimistic worldview even when the ending is sad
    Assuming a positive approach to the weak morals of the characters

  10. Spawning a new subdivision of heroic drama, this literary movement celebrates the spirit of hope, personal freedom, and natural instincts.

    11. Your answer:
    Romanticism
    Symbolism
    Futurism
    Classicism

  11. One of the best examples of heroic drama is by Edmond Rostand entitled...

    12. Your answer:
    Electra
    The Cid
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    Saint Joan

  12. The term bourgeois refers to...

    13. Your answer:
    Artists
    The middle class
    The aristocracy
    The lower class

  13. The first domestic drama was...

    14. Your answer:
    The Orestia by Aeschylus
    Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    All My Sons by Arthur Miller
    The London Merchant by George Lillo

  14. The word melodrama has Greek roots meaning...

    15. Your answer:
    a) Music drama
    b) Song drama
    c) Light drama
    d) Middle drama
    e) a and b
    f) c and d

  15. The focus of melodrama is...

    16. Your answer:
    To frighten and horrify the audience
    To make the audience laugh
    To evoke an emotional response
    To achieve catharsis

  16. In melodrama...

    17. Your answer:
    The issues are clear-cut, and there is a strong delineation of right and wrong
    The characters are clearly recognizable as good and bad
    There is a strong emphasis on suspense
    The action is exaggerated, with the main characters always living in danger and on the edge of calamity
    None of the above
    All of the above

  17. The female playwright whose works can be viewed as melodramas, such as The Little Foxes, is...

    18. Your answer:
    Anna Deveare Smith
    Caryl Churchill
    Lillian Hellman
    Lorraine Hansberry

  18. Of the following, what does tragedy attempt to do?

    19. Your answer:
    Present violence onstage in an artistic manner.
    Ask basic questions about human existence.
    Justify the gods and their role in our lives.
    Prove that fate controls man and that there is no such thing as free will.

  19. One of the arguments against modern tragedy focuses on...

    20. Your answer:
    The use of narrative to create a full sense of the story
    The use of nonverbal cues to convey information and emotion
    The inability of prose to articulate the lofty concerns of tragedy
    The weak nature of the modern man

  20. Which form of tragedy or serious drama is predominant in the 20th century?

    21. Your answer:
    Traditional tragedy
    Heroic drama
    Domestic drama
    Melodrama