THEATER 101 CHAPTER 2 QUIZ #1
QUIZ #1 - The Audience: Its Role and Imagination

 

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  1. Wilson states that theatre has a 'special nature' that helps it survive in today's world of film and television. While there are many factors that contribute to theater's survival, the most important is, perhaps, the fact that theater is:

    2. Your answer:
    intelligent
    expensive
    live
    current

  2. While in the theater, the audience is always in the presence of the performers; film allows the audience to be in the presence of

    3. Your answer:
    a reflection
    an image
    special effects
    a community

  3. Which of the following does Wilson state is at the 'heart of the theater experience'?

    4. Your answer:
    the director-designer relationship
    the performer-director relationship
    the director-audience relationship
    the performer-audience relationship

  4. Which social psychologist does Wilson use to illustrate the psychology of groups?

    5. Your answer:
    Gustave Le Bon
    Sigmund Freud
    Carl Jung
    none of the above

  5. Which of the following can affect the theater experience?

    6. Your answer:
    a general audience
    the audience's relationship to one another
    a homogeneous audience
    all of the above

  6. In which recent play were audience members asked to be a part of the action?

    7. Your answer:
    Angels in America
    Psychotherapy Live!
    Cloud 9
    Dancing at Lughnasa

  7. The term for the separation between an audience and a work of art is known as:

    8. Your answer:
    suspension of disbelief
    aesthetic distance
    excessive empathy
    intelligent reality

  8. Theater in which the audience is simply a spectator 'looking in' on the action of the play is known as:

    9. Your answer:
    participatory theater
    experimental theater
    observed theater
    complacent theater

  9. Theater in which the audience gets involved directly is known as:

    10. Your answer:
    participatory theater
    experimental theater
    observed theater
    complacent theater

  10. Which of the following is NOT considered to be participatory theater?

    11. Your answer:
    creative dramatics
    sociodrama
    drama therapy
    none of the above

  11. One of the most important tools that audience members bring to a theatrical experience is their:

    12. Your answer:
    intelligence
    attention
    imagination
    critical opinions

  12. Which of the following best defines the theatrical device known as a flashback?

    13. Your answer:
    a scene which begins with a flash of light
    a scene in which the characters onstage freeze while a narrator talks to the audience
    a scene in which there are abrupt movements from the present to the past and back again
    a scene in which there are abrupt movements into the future

  13. The device that involves placing a character or event outside of the proper time sequence is known as:

    14. Your answer:
    anachronism
    flashback
    flashforward
    exposition

  14. According to Wilson, what are two important tools of the imagination?

    15. Your answer:
    flashback and anachronism
    empathy and sympathy
    symbol and metaphor
    belief and disbelief

  15. A realistic element of theater is best described as:

    16. Your answer:
    one that resembles observable reality
    everything that does not conform to observations of surface reality
    one that has actually, historically happened
    one that makes the audience feel comfortable

  16. A nonrealistic element of theater is best describes as:

    17. Your answer:
    one that resembles observable reality
    everything that does not conform to observations of surface reality
    one that has actually, historically happened
    one that makes the audience feel comfortable

  17. The nonrealistic device in which a character speaks to the audience, expressing in words a hidden thought is known as:

    18. Your answer:
    narration
    dramatic irony
    exposition
    soliloquy

  18. Pantomime in theater is best described as:

    19. Your answer:
    performers in white face and white gloves trapped in imaginary boxes
    performers pretending to use objects that are not actually present
    the use of oversized objects for emphasis
    the act of breaking into song or dance in a musical

  19. Which of the following is NOT a nonrealistic element or technique of theater?

    20. Your answer:
    soliloquy
    arbitrary use of time and space
    ghosts and witches
    recognizable human beings

  20. Which of the following is NOT a realistic element or technique of theater?

    21. Your answer:
    events that have happened or may happen in everyday life
    action is confined to real places
    performers portraying people as they behave in daily life
    pantomime