THEATER 101 CHAPTER 6 QUIZ #5
QUIZ #5 - Acting: Offstage and in the Past

 

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  1. According to Wilson who or what serves as the direct, immediate contact which the audience has with the theater?
  2. Your answer:
    the director
    the designers
    the performers
    the playwright


  3. What are two common forms of acting in daily life?
  4. Your answer:
    imitation and flattery
    imitation and role playing
    imitation and pretense
    role playing and creative dramatics


  5. According to Wilson, children are particularly effective at which type of daily life acting?
  6. Your answer:
    William Shakespeare
    Tennessee Williams
    imitation
    pretense


  7. What are the two classifications of roles used in role playing?
  8. Your answer:
    social and psychological
    psychological and personal
    personal and professional
    social and personal


  9. What play does Wilson use as an example of role playing in drama?
  10. Your answer:
    Death and the Maiden
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    Death of a Salesman
    King Lear


  11. Which of the following is an important difference between acting in everyday life and acting on the stage?
  12. Your answer:
    the essential presence of observers
    playing several parts in one play
    the conscious nature of a theatrical performance
    all of the above


  13. The acting style in Shakespeare's time characterized by:
  14. Your answer:
    subtle, textured acting
    exaggerated style and gestures
    internalized acting
    none of the above


  15. Which of the following DID NOT have an effect on the actor's voice in classical acting?
  16. Your answer:
    the use of poetry in the plays
    the large, outdoor auditoriums in which the plays were performed
    the use of masks
    the use of prose in the plays


  17. In which of the following periods of theater history were women prohibited from performing onstage?
  18. Your answer:
    Ancient Greece
    the Modern era
    Elizabethan England
    both first and third answers


  19. During which historical theatrical period were actors considered as socially acceptable?
  20. Your answer:
    Neoclassical France
    Elizabethan England
    Ancient Greece
    both the first and third answers