Question 1

The \"core concept\" is

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the director\'s determination of the most important of the many images, ideas, and emotions that will give the production meaning

Question 2

The timing and placement of a character\'s entrances, exits, crosses, embraces, and other major movements is called

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blocking

Question 3

Which of the following is true of the history of the director\'s role?

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The idea of an independent director did not exist until the nineteenth century.

Question 4

The directing process encompasses the distinct periods of preparation and implementation.

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True

Question 5

The director spends most of her time doing which of the following tasks?

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Coaching actors

Question 6

A director should possess all of the following EXCEPT

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a capable voice and an athletic physique, both which comprise the actor\'s instrument

Question 7

Small-scale movement on the stage, which an actor performs within the larger pattern of entrances and exits, is called

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business

Question 8

Which of the following was one of several directors who not only fostered the development of realist and naturalist dramas but who was also considered artists, analysts, therapists and even mystics?

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Harley Granville-Barker

Question 9

The interest of the director and intended audience, along with the capability of the director and producer to conceptualize and produce the play, are all criteria for play selection.

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True

Question 10

A great directorial concept has the qualities of being generalized, well-established by tradition, intellectually relaxing,, and readily apparent without much imagination.

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False

Question 11

The initial shows where a director can evaluate the production in terms of audience response and institute new changes are known as

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Previews

Question 12

What is the director\'s primary responsibility?

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to envision the main lines of the production and provide the artistic leadership to realize that vision

Question 13

The director\'s work with the designers is generally suggestive and corrective, rather than overtly controlling.

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True

Question 14

Which person is responsible for the financial support of the production and, working closely with the director, also contributes to many \"directorial\" decisions in the production process?

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producer

Question 15

As a response against Stanislavsky\'s realism, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold evolved a theatre of \"biomechanical constructivism\" in Moscow.

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True

Question 16

What kind of scenery attempts to depict, in great detail, a specific time and place in the observable world where the play\'s events are presumed to take place?

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realistic scenery

Question 17

The development of _____ fostered the great period of scenery design.

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development of European indoor theaters, artificial lighting and flat scenery

Question 18

Which invention brought lighting to the stage in its modern form and made lighting a more controlled part of the drama?

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gaslight

Question 19

Turntables, elevators, hoists, rolling carts, and wagons, which are all used as scenic elements to accompany and support the dramatic action, are collectively called

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Stage machinery

Question 20

The ancient and original use of costume was to

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to separate the actor from the audience

Question 21

During performances, the person fully in charge of overseeing the execution of the show is the

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stage manager

Question 22

The name given to the boards that elevate the actors above the level of the audience is a flat.

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false

Question 23

A loosely woven fabric that looks opaque when lit from one side and transparent when lit from the other side is called a cyclorama.

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false

Question 24

The Broadway production of War Horse won separate Tony Awards for best play, direction, scenery, costume and sound design, but not for its

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use of children playing adults

Question 25

Which of the following is NOT a postmodern design element?

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exact replicas needed to make a realistic representative of the character\'s homes

Question 26

Common goals of lighting design are verisimilitude and atmosphere.

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true

Question 27

All of the following are elements the scenic designer might take into consideration when creating the visual presentation of the staging EXCEPT

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underscoring

Question 28

The most exciting new development in lighting design is LED technology.

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True

Question 29

Makeup, like costuming, is

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both ceremonial and illustrative

Question 30

A plan or series of plans showing the placement of each lighting instrumentâits type, wattage, size, wiring and connection to a dimmer, and color is called

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light plot

Question 31

Ancient Egypt\'s Abydos Passion Play and other texts of that time employed plot elements that indicate they derived from

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ancient reenactments of the coming of spring and the celebration of birth

Question 32

What theatre type is a highly ceremonial musical and dance drama, of which the 240 texts produced today were written by members of a single family five hundred years ago, and whose lines were designed to be sung rather than spoken?

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no/noh

Question 33

The excesses of Romanticism gave rise to melodrama and grand opera

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True

Question 34

Kabuki consists of only one category: history plays.

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False

Question 35

The principles of the Romantic theatre were in reaction to the previous era\'s emphasis on rationality.

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True

Question 36

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are the three masters of Greek tragedy.

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True

Question 37

Two Roman comic playwrights are Plautus and Terence.

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true

Question 38

The Renaissance was characterized by which of the following?

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a renewed interest in classical (Greek and Roman) civilization

Question 39

All of the following authors wrote for royal theatres EXCEPT

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Shakespeare

Question 40

Rome\'s greatest contribution to the theatre was

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their architecture of the theatre space

Question 41

Performers in Chinese opera are adept at singing, speech, mime, acting, and acrobatics.

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True

Question 42

Plays of the royal theatre era are characterized by

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Rational philosophies and sensibilities

Question 43

Which Renaissance-era theatre building has been recently (1997) restored as a functioning performing space?

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The Globe

Question 44

The liturgical trope Quem Quaeritis

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celebrates the three Mary\'s visiting Jesus\'s tomb after his crucifixion

Question 45

The work of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson in England and Machiavelli and commedia dell\'arte in Italy are all examples of Renaissance theatre.

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True

Question 46

Which of the following is true of the relationship between naturalism and realism? A. Naturalism and realism are interchangeable terms.

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Naturalism paralleled but existed independently of realism and sought to eliminate every vestige of dramatic convention.

Question 47

Which of the following is true about the age of \"isms\"?

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It covers many different ideological tenets such as futurism, dadism, expressionism, surrealism, etc.

Question 48

This playwright, born in Germany in 1898, emerged from World War I as a dedicated Marxist and pacifist, and consolidated his theories about drama into a body of plays that include The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Good Person of Szechuan.

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Bertolt Brecht

Question 49

The theatre where Chekhov collaborated with Konstantin Stanislavsky is the Moscow Art Theatre.

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True

Question 50

Realist drama attempts to break through the limitation of language and character in order to arrive at an insight into a greater metaphysical cosmos.

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False

Question 51

Which type of drama fits the following description: the theatre becomes a part of the content of play production, not merely the vehicle.

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Metatheatre

Question 52

Avant-garde means, literally, \"the major assault\" or \"shock troops\".

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True

Question 53

Which play exemplifies the genre of political satire?

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Caryl Churchill\'s Serious Money

Question 54

Brecht\'s distance effects sought to enhance the audience\'s engagement with the characters and thus, have a sentimental relationship with them.

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False

Question 55

One convention of the realist theatre is that dialogue

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is conversation

Question 56

The constructivist who broke with Stanislavsky\'s style of realist performance to create a nonrealist \"biomechanical\" style of acting and direction was

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Vsevold Meyerhold.

Question 57

Surrealism, which means \"beyond realism,\" was invented by Picasso.

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False

Question 58

Typical themes of the symbolist theatre include the inner realities that cannot be directly or literally perceived

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True

Question 59

Realist theatre

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had a long lasting effect on modern theatre

Question 60

The saying \"no more masterpieces\" is a tenet of

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Artaud\'s theatre of cruelty.

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