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Farce lacks three-dimensional characters

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true

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

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Euripides

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Never found in Elizabethan theater

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female performers

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

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send audiences home in a happier state of mind.

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Serious criticism aimed at the betterment of society but accomplished through laughter:

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satire

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Of primary importance in tragedy is the death of the main character

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False

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Racine's Phaedra added to the theater the element of

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the inner life

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Author of A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play about an African American family

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Lorraine Hansberry

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

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True

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The History Boys is a highly acclaimed play that deals with

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standards in modern British education

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The central theme of The History Boys is whether education has any validity

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True

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At the end of Medea, the title character recognizes her error in one of the theater's famous speeches of repentance

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False

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The commedia dell'arte specialized in

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pantomime

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In the Elizabethan theater, female roles were played by boys or men

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True

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman makes masterful use of flashbacks

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True

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All of the following are themes of Angels in America except

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the tragic lives of people with ordinary jobs

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In Shakespeare's plays emotions are discussed but never shown

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False

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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

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False

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In the second part of Shakespeare's Henry V, the newly crowned king halts the Coronation to embrace his old friend Falstaff

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False

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Ragtime rhythm is so rapid that many pianists cannot play it

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True

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The students in Spring Awakening are denied all knowledge of

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sex

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Credited as the first musical to unify plot, characters, songs, and dances

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Oklahoma!

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Choreographer Twyla Tharp combines classical and modern dance with pop music and jazz

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True

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A contemporary musical deals with the formerly off-limits topic of mental illness

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true

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The New York City Ballet was founded by dancer and choreographer Martha Graham

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false

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Porgy's mode of transportation

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goat cart

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Pal Joey is the first major musical to have an unsympathetic main character.

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True

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German composer Richard Wagner believed Italian opera had made a mistake in

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making the music more important than the story.

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Spring Awakening is a ballet composed by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

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False

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The 1975 musical about dancers auditioning for a Broadway musical was called One Singular Sensation

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False

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Not involved in flamenco dancing

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violins

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gambler, pimp, and drug dealer named Sportin' Life is a deceptively charming character in West Side Story

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False

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Monteverdi's most famous opera, Rigoletto, is based on the myth of Hercules

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false

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Verdi's romantic opera La Traviata (1852) was not an instant success.

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False

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In Of Thee I Sing, the future First Lady is chosen through a

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beauty pageant

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Founded by Balanchine:

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New York City Ballet

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Directors who are trusted to choose their own projects and who often write their own screenplays that reflect their personal philosophies are known as

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auteurs

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characterization identified with a certain actor, often to the point where the actor and the character are perceived as the same person

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persona

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Classic film believed to have been based on a real-life newspaper publisher

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Citizen Kane

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The Birth of a Nation justified the actions of the Ku Klux Klan

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True

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Sophisticated animated film, the theme of which is good taste and how to recognize it

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Ratatouille

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A famous film noir, Casablanca is set in

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World War II Morocco

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Alfred Hitchcock's famous shower scene occurs in this film

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Psycho

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Citizen Kane did not do well at the box office, although it was praised by critics

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True

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Decade of It Happened One Night

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1930s

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In It Happened One Night, Colbert and Gable string a blanket between their motel-room beds for modesty and refer to it as "the great wall of China

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false

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All of the following are criteria for critical film viewing except

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reverence

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A nonfiction film that usually has a narrator but not a structured storyline is a

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documentary

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The Akira Kurosawa film in which the audience is introduced to feudal Japan's warrior class

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The Seven Samurai

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated feature film

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true

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Griffith and Eisenstein are famous auteurs of film noir

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false

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An immortal line from Casablanca is "Here's looking at you

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kid

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In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee uses a version of the chorus, a convention that dates back to the theater of ancient Greece

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True

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Famous lingering take in The Birth of a Nation

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dead soldiers who had fought on opposite sides

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The Odessa steps scene in The Battleship Potemkin is an example of an elongated moment.

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True

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conventions theater

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conditions audience agree to accept

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classical or Sophocles conventions

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verse, masks, all-male cast, messenger, the chorus, everything happens in one day

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Greece violence is

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off stage

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Rome violence is

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on stage

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Elizabeth or Shakespeare conventions

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All-male cast, verse except for prose given to servant's, the soliloquy, no scenery, unities discarded, subtext

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Tragedy

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Revolves around a central protagonist recognition scene-moment when main character understands what has brought on the disaster

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catharsis

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moving forward emotional expression

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hubris

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intense pride

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the theme of Sound of Music

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courage bravery and activing joy

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Regional context of Sound of Music

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rained a lot in Austria, cold hard to film

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All famous broadways have been written about

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joy

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Alfred Hitchcock innovations

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unique camera placement, gallows humor and suspense over surprise

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Conventions of film

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are the conditions accepted by the audience cinematography is the way in which the camera tells the story

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conventions of film examples

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establishing shot, close-up, sound, background music, point of view,

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critical viewing of films

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single use of unique to cinema, characters with complex inner lives, relevance to the times, integrity, avoidance of stereotypes, gravity of theme

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