5 Written Questions

1. Features fictional, average citizens and has no supernatural or heroic overtones
2. Hanging cloth used as a blind, especially for a window
3. The main character of a narrative; central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy.
4. The author of a play
5. A famous playwright of the Elizabethan age

5 Matching Questions

1. Internal Acting
2. Comedy
3. Proscenium Arch
4. Proscenium Stage
5. Recognition

1. a The actor is supposed to actually generate the emotion that the character is feeling, and the posture and expression should appear natural
2. b A performance space in which the audience sits in front of the stage and views, as if through a picture frame
3. c The arch that frames a stage, separating it from the auditorium
4. d Anagnorisis; a scene in which the protagonist recognizes an event, action, or other truth that assures their downfall
5. e A play in which the characters amuse us by their action or wit, which ends in a happy ending; its Western origins are found in Ancient Greece

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation
   1. Recognition
   2. Exposition
   3. Resolution
   4. Conflict
2. Emotional peak with the highest tension; occurs right before the resolution
   1. Climax
   2. Flats
   3. Comedy
   4. Scrim
3. A serious play in which the protagonist, by some peculiarity of character, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final devastating catastrophe
   1. Comedy
   2. Drapery
   3. Tragedy
   4. Gels
4. Hymn sung and danced in a tribute to Dionysus
   1. Catharsis
   2. Platform
   3. Scrim
   4. Dithyramb
5. A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides
   1. Resolution
   2. Thrust Stage
   3. Fly Space
   4. Catastrophe

5 True/False Questions

1. City Dionysia → Describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy

   True        False

2. Stanislavsky's System → An actor's use of their body, will, voice, and imagination to impart a character's intentions

   True        False

3. Catharsis → Describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy

   True        False

4. Skene → Colored plastic to change colors of lights

   True        False

5. Actor's Instrument → A theater stage that extends out into the audience's part of a theater and has seats on three sides

   True        False