Theatre History Test

Question 1

What was the famous Renaissance Theatre called?

Accepted Answer

The Globe Theatre

Question 2

What was the most significant city in Greece?

Accepted Answer

Athens

Question 3

What is not a given circumstance?

Accepted Answer

What do I own?

Question 4

What does renaissance mean?

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 5

Who wrote The Glass Menagire

Accepted Answer

Williams

Question 6

Realism operates off of instinct

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Who utilized Theatre in history?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 8

About how many plays remain written today from the Ancient Greeks?

Accepted Answer

Around 40

Question 9

Where did Realism begin?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 10

Commedia dell'arte utilized stock characters

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What does the term Thespian refer to?

Accepted Answer

An Actor

Question 12

Audiences were allowed to eat in Renaissance Theatres

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Who wrote A Raisin in the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Hansberry

Question 14

How was theatre not used in Pre-Historic times?

Accepted Answer

As a means of entertainment

Question 15

Ampitheatres were standing room only

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Given circumstances are most utilized in commedia dell arte style acting

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Thespis is thought to be the first recorded actor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What are given cirumcumstances?

Accepted Answer

Basic information all characters should know

Question 19

Who propelled a majority of the story forward?

Accepted Answer

Chorus

Question 20

Who is responsible for CASA 0101?

Accepted Answer

Lopez

Question 21

Where is the Guthrie Theater?

Accepted Answer

Minneapolis

Question 22

Who was the Greek God of Wine and Fertility?

Accepted Answer

Dionysus

Question 23

Amphitheater's were the primary theater in Greece

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Aristotle wrote The Poetics

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Which is not a Shakespeare Tragedy?

Accepted Answer

Taming of the Shrew

Question 26

Who wrote Death of a Salesman?

Accepted Answer

Miller

Question 27

Words were often used in Pre-Historic Theatre

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

Where was William Shakespeare born?

Accepted Answer

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Question 29

What director and producer brought the modern room to the stage?

Accepted Answer

Belasco

Question 30

Who was the God of the Skies?

Accepted Answer

Zeus

Question 31

What was Shakespeare's troupe called?

Accepted Answer

Chamberlain's Men

Question 32

Who is the father of Realism?

Accepted Answer

Ibsen

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