Question 1

The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

Accepted Answer

A)  standards in modern British education. 
B)  a scandalous royal family. 
C)  a con man who falsifies his family background. 
D)  a love affair between a high school principal and a newly hired teaching assistant. 
E)  King George III and the American Revolution. 
A)  standards in modern British education. 
B)  a scandalous royal family. 
C)  a con man who falsifies his family background. 
D)  a love affair between a high school principal and a newly hired teaching assistant. 
E)  King George III and the American Revolution.

Question 2

Arrogance is the character flaw most often found in the protagonist of Greek tragedies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The china episode in The Country Wife is considered one of the most tragic scenes in all of drama.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Verisimilitude in the theater means that there is an attempt to make scenery and dialogue look and sound like the real world.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The main character in Wycherley's The Country Wife

Accepted Answer

A)  is allowed access to married women with their husbands' permission. 
B)  hides under the beds of married women until their husbands go off to work. 
C)  pretends to married women that he is now in holy orders and is willing to hear their confessions. 
D)  drinks his employer's wine and blames his employer's wife. 
E)  hides a man's wife in a laundry basket. 
A)  is allowed access to married women with their husbands' permission. 
B)  hides under the beds of married women until their husbands go off to work. 
C)  pretends to married women that he is now in holy orders and is willing to hear their confessions. 
D)  drinks his employer's wine and blames his employer's wife. 
E)  hides a man's wife in a laundry basket.

Question 6

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ murders children in revenge

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 7

Never found in Elizabethan theater:

Accepted Answer

A)  all-male cast 
B)  female performers 
C)  dialogue in verse 
D)  audience drawn from more than one social class 
E)  actors alone on stage but talking anyway 
A)  all-male cast 
B)  female performers 
C)  dialogue in verse 
D)  audience drawn from more than one social class 
E)  actors alone on stage but talking anyway

Question 8

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 9

The first recorded comedies were written by Greek tragic playwrights, possibly in order to:

Accepted Answer

A)  send audiences home in a happier state of mind. 
B)  make money lost on "heavier" plays. 
C)  quiet down the noisy crowd. 
D)  provide employment for actors with acrobatic skills. 
E)  poke fun at what was playing in rival theaters. 
A)  send audiences home in a happier state of mind. 
B)  make money lost on "heavier" plays. 
C)  quiet down the noisy crowd. 
D)  provide employment for actors with acrobatic skills. 
E)  poke fun at what was playing in rival theaters.

Question 10

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ the world's first theater critic, he analyzed tragic drama

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 11

Racine's Phaedraadded to the theater the element of

Accepted Answer

A)  suspense. 
B)  sexuality. 
C)  the inner life. 
D)  alienation. 
E)  satire. 
A)  suspense. 
B)  sexuality. 
C)  the inner life. 
D)  alienation. 
E)  satire.

Question 12

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ the rules audiences are asked to accept

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 13

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ what Bertolt Brecht hoped to induce in his audiences

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 14

The dramatic enactment of scenes from the past is

Accepted Answer

A)  historical drama. 
B)  flashback. 
C)  expressionism. 
D)  no longer implemented. 
E)  Elizabethan drama. 
A)  historical drama. 
B)  flashback. 
C)  expressionism. 
D)  no longer implemented. 
E)  Elizabethan drama.

Question 15

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ Tartuffe

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 16

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all.
-___ makes fun of a particular work or genre

Accepted Answer

A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism 
A) Thornton Wilder 
B) Samuel Beckett 
C) Our Town 
D) parody 
E) Arthur Miller
F)Konstantin Stanislavsky
G)William Shakespeare
H)A View from the Bridge
I)catharsis
J)Chekhov
K)King Lear
L)Nora
M)alienation
N)Medea
O)soliloquy
P)Moliere
Q)Aristotle
R)conventions
S)William Wycherley
T)hubris
U)expressionism

Question 17

Considered by Aristotle to be the most tragic of the Greek dramatists:

Accepted Answer

A)  Euripides 
B)  Aeschylus 
C)  Phidias 
D)  Plato 
E)  Sophocles 
A)  Euripides 
B)  Aeschylus 
C)  Phidias 
D)  Plato 
E)  Sophocles

Question 18

Willy Loman is

Accepted Answer

A)  an Irish dramatist. 
B)  a stock character. 
C)  an assistant to Falstaff. 
D)  a man obsessed with success. 
E)  one of the arch villains of melodrama. 
A)  an Irish dramatist. 
B)  a stock character. 
C)  an assistant to Falstaff. 
D)  a man obsessed with success. 
E)  one of the arch villains of melodrama.

Question 19

By the time the curtain falls on a traditional comedy like Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman, the fool comes to a realization of his foolishness.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

In the Jean Racine play, Phaedra is married to Theseus but lusts after her gardener.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

Arrogance is the character flaw most often found in the protagonist of Greek tragedies.

The china episode in The Country Wife is considered one of the most tragic scenes in all of drama.

Verisimilitude in the theater means that there is an attempt to make scenery and dialogue look and sound like the real world.

The main character in Wycherley's The Country Wife

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ murders children in revenge

Never found in Elizabethan theater:

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

The first recorded comedies were written by Greek tragic playwrights, possibly in order to:

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ the world's first theater critic, he analyzed tragic drama

Racine's Phaedraadded to the theater the element of

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ the rules audiences are asked to accept

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ what Bertolt Brecht hoped to induce in his audiences

The dramatic enactment of scenes from the past is

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ Tartuffe

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ makes fun of a particular work or genre

Considered by Aristotle to be the most tragic of the Greek dramatists:

Willy Loman is

By the time the curtain falls on a traditional comedy like Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman, the fool comes to a realization of his foolishness.

In the Jean Racine play, Phaedra is married to Theseus but lusts after her gardener.

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The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

Arrogance is the character flaw most often found in the protagonist of Greek tragedies.

The china episode in The Country Wife is considered one of the most tragic scenes in all of drama.

Verisimilitude in the theater means that there is an attempt to make scenery and dialogue look and sound like the real world.

The main character in Wycherley's The Country Wife

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ murders children in revenge

Never found in Elizabethan theater:

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"

The first recorded comedies were written by Greek tragic playwrights, possibly in order to:

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ the world's first theater critic, he analyzed tragic drama

Racine's Phaedraadded to the theater the element of

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ the rules audiences are asked to accept

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ what Bertolt Brecht hoped to induce in his audiences

The dramatic enactment of scenes from the past is

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ Tartuffe

Place the appropriate number next to the item that most closely matches it. You may use choices more than once. Some options will not be used at all. -___ makes fun of a particular work or genre

Considered by Aristotle to be the most tragic of the Greek dramatists:

Willy Loman is

By the time the curtain falls on a traditional comedy like Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman, the fool comes to a realization of his foolishness.

In the Jean Racine play, Phaedra is married to Theseus but lusts after her gardener.

The Humanities: a Shining Beacon

The Humanities and Critical Thinking

Myth and the Origin of the Humanities

Literature

Art

Music

The Musical Stage: Opera, Music, Drama, Dance

Cinema

Religion

Morality

Happiness

Love

Life-Affirmation

Nature

Freedom

Filters