Theatre I Final 2 2016

Question 1

Who did Seneca tutor?

Accepted Answer

Nero

Question 2

What did Romans NOT add to their stages?

Accepted Answer

Box Office

Question 3

Ben Jonson was the first Englishman to write ___________________.

Accepted Answer

Comedy

Question 4

What is the term for a play meant to be read and not performed?

Accepted Answer

Closet drama

Question 5

Who is considered the greatest playwright in history?

Accepted Answer

William Shakespeare

Question 6

What is a play based on last week in the life of Christ?

Accepted Answer

Passion

Question 7

Who was the Elizabethan era named after?

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth I

Question 8

What were people who stood in the pit of Elizabethan theaters called?

Accepted Answer

Groundlings

Question 9

What were mobile stages called in Medieval theatre?

Accepted Answer

Pageant carts

Question 10

What are combined stories performed by the guilds?

Accepted Answer

Cycles

Question 11

Which Elizabethan playwright is known for writing blank verse?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Marlowe

Question 12

What are plays based on the saints' lives and Bible stories?

Accepted Answer

Miracle and Mystery

Question 13

Which play did William Shakespeare NOT write?

Accepted Answer

The Jew of Malta

Question 14

Which words best describe Roman theatre?

Accepted Answer

Vulgar, sexual, profane

Question 15

What did an Elizabethan actor have to do in order to be considered legitimate?

Accepted Answer

Get patronage of the nobility

Question 16

Plautus used _______________ devices, which Shakespeare later copied.

Accepted Answer

Poetic

Question 17

Medieval theatre is was based around the _______.

Accepted Answer

Church

Question 18

Terence was a ______________.

Accepted Answer

Slave

Question 19

What was the name of Shakespeare's theater?

Accepted Answer

The Globe

Question 20

Where did the richest people sit in an Elizabethan theater?

Accepted Answer

The stage

Question 21

Who is believed to have been a spy for the queen?

Accepted Answer

Marlowe

Question 22

In the Globe Theatre, who sat in the gallery (seats along the wall)?

Accepted Answer

Middle Class

Question 23

Who played female roles in Elizabethan theatre?

Accepted Answer

Young boys

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