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What are morality plays?
What is station drama?
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What is station drama?
A bus station drama.
Drama where the antagonist confronts a series of blessings.
Protagonist travels through a series of stations to pray for aid from God
Drama showing analogous to christ's journey of the "stations of the cross"
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What are morality plays?
Drama that aims to teach a lesson using non-allegorical characters.
Drama that aims to intimidate using religious characters.
Drama that aims to teach a lesson using allegorical characters.
Drama that aims to unteach a lesson using allegorical characters.
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What is vernacular drama?
Drama that was developed using Latin;so the common couldn't understand.
Drama that was made to not have Latin;allowing common people to understand,
Drama in French that only the french could understand.
Drama that wasn’t translated; only the upper class could understand.
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What were the mystery/cycle plays?
Simplistic plays for nobles and soldiers to try new abilities.
Simplistic plays for traders and slaves to try new abilities.
Elaborate plays for artisans and smiths to display their abilities.
Elaborate plays for traders and craftsmen to display their abilities.
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Usually, who were the performers in medieval theatre?
Experienced Actors, never typecasted.
Anyone that was willing to perform.
Amateur actors, typically typecasted.
Experienced actors, typically typecasted.
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What is liturgical drama?
Medieval plays in Latin with music, and two groups singing to each other.
Late medieval plays in Latin with one group singing.
Early medieval plays in latin that had no music
Early medieval plays in french with two groups singing.
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Which of the extant cycle plays series is the most complete?
N_Town (24 plays).
The York Cycle (48 plays).
The Chester Cycle (42 plays)
Wakefield (48 plays).
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In what ways were morality plays different from mystery plays?
Morality plays used Allegorical characters to teach an abstract lesson.
Morality plays focused on biblical stories.
Morality plays used allegorical characters to teach biblical lessons.
Morality plays used moral characters to teach common lesson.
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What are the centuries bookending the Medieval period in Europe?
4th - 14th/16th
6th - 10th/12th
6th - 14th/16th
4th - 13th/15th
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What is stationary staging?
Staging that took place in a singular location, usually in open courtyards
Huge platforms of small scenic mansions, usually in an open courtyard.
Wagon, typically 2 stories, with 6 wheels made to move from place to place
Small stages that couldn’t move, in an open courtyard.
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What are tropes?
Extended musical passages during church, which later added words to aid.
Extended word passages during church, which later added songs to aid memory
Musical passages sung during church that NEVER added words.
Church services with no music.
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Why do the soldiers flee when they see Dulcitius afterwards?
They see a figure looming behind Dulcitius
They actually just saw a bee.
They mistake him for an angry God
They mistake him for a demon.
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What are the main staging areas of liturgical drama?
Platea and mansions.
Hovels and nave
Skene and Theatron
Platea and hovels.
14
What was the
Quem quaeritis?
Trope that was introduced in ca. 532 and meant “Hey yo what up?” in Latin
Trope that was introduced in ca. 925 and meant “Whom seek ye?” in Latin.
Trope that was introduced in ca. 925 and meant “Whomst ye seek?” in Latin.
Trope that was introduced in ca. 845 and meant “Whom ye be?” in Latin.
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What is a mansion?
A structure for a biblical tale. Could be constructed/be an existing church
Small scenic structure w/ locale for a biblical tale. Needs to be concrete.
A large scenic structure meant for noble seating. Could be constructed.
A big house.
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What was an interlude?
A theatrical piece staged before the courses of a banquet.
A theatrical piece staged between the courses of a banquet.
A theatrical dance staged during the courses of a banquet
A theatrical performance staged after the course of a banquet
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What was a farce?
An exaggerated type of comedy
A melodrama
A dramedy
A watered down type of comedy.
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What was the purpose of tropes?
To remove the musical portion of church services and delete words.
To expand the musical portion of church and add words to music as an aid.
To expand the musical portion of services and add words to add challenges.
To remove music from church and only have words.
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Which of the following are miracles/supernatural events that occur in
Dulcitius
?
The two older sisters’ bodies not burning.
All of the above.
Clothes sticking to the virgins’ bodies .
The soldiers becoming lost at the mountain.
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Whom does Everyman ask and does not accept to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife?
Beauty, confession, knowledge, cousin
Silly goose, Beauty, Stinker, Fellowship
Fellowship, kindred, cousin, goods
Five-wits, greed, cousin, lust
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What was the Feast of Fools?
Festival that refrained the lesser clergy from ridiculing superiors.
Inversion of status that allowed lesser clergy to ridicule their superiors
Superiors could ridicule the lesser clergy and their simple upbringing
Allowed the upper clergy to ridicule common folk & the church life.
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True or False: liturgical drama could be staged in simultaneous/multiple settings.
True
False
23
What was the Feast of Corpus Christi and why was it important?
A festival that had all plays indoors, to make church more relevant.
A liturgical ceremony that staged indoor plays, only the rich were invited.
Liturgical ceremony that staged outdoor plays. Made church relevant to all.
A non-liturgical ceremony that staged outdoor plays, for the upper class.
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What is the purpose of the play as announced by the Messenger?
To suggest a more pure way of living.
To make you cry.
To prove everyone dies no matter what.
To show how transitory life and moral plays are
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How is the theatrical space different in Medieval times as compared to “seeing place” structure of the theatron/cavea?
Apron/Wing
Cavea/Theatron
Nave/Audience
Stage/Actors
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How did the relationship between stage and audience vary?
Whoever was close to the stage stood & people in the back sat in box seats.
The audience is viewed from one side and only one side,
The audience is viewed from all sides, three sides, or just one side.
People closest to the stage sat, and people in the back stood on platforms.
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Who was in charge of producing/staging the cycle plays?
Confraternities
Guilds
The clergy.
All of the above.
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What is processional staging?
Wagon, typically 2 stories, with 6 wheels made to move from place to place.
The use of hanging mechanics from mansions in a platea.
Small stages that couldn’t move, in an open courtyard.
Huge platforms of small scenic mansions, usually in an open courtyard.
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What are the elements of continuity between earlier Roman and Medieval performance?
Roman mimes became musicals, skops, and competitions.
Roman nomadic bands, became medieval mimes
Medieval mimes became nomadic bands, skops, and festivals.
Roman mimes became nomadic bands, skops, and festivals.
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Why are morality plays considered allegorical?
Characters undertook a journey through which they learned the moral lesson.
Characters undertook a journey and they face a deep tragic lesson.
Characters undertook a journey through which they never learn moral lesson.
Characters undertook a journey through which they always die.
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Why is Dulcitius unsuccessful in his plan to have sex with the virgins? What is comical about the scene?
He has sex with pots and pans, it covers him in soot
The soldiers stop him, and he tries to have sex with them instead
The virgins ambush him, and throw a bag of soot on his face
He has a big meal with his buddies instead.
32
Who helps Good-Deeds grow strong enough?
Knowledge
Both Knowledge and Confession
Confession
Beauty
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What were the secrets of stage tech?
All of the electricity they had to power it.
They’re secrets, no one knows.
Special effects.
Elaborate organization
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What is the platea?
A plate placed on an altar to pray for liturgical drama.
The central open playing space in staging liturgical drama.
The upper playing space of a mansion in liturgical drama.
The sides of the stage that we would consider the wings
35
Who is the only one who accompanies Everyman?
Knowledge
Good-Deeds
Five-wits
No one accompanies Everyman
36
How does each sister die?
Agape & Chionia die in a fire, Irena is killed by Sisinnius' bow & arrow.
Agape & Chionia die in a fire, Irena is killed by Dulcitius’ bow & arrow.
All three are shot by Sisinnius.
All three die in a fire.
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What were the mystery/cycle plays’ dramatic structure?
Three Acts
Five Act Structure
Episodic.
Musical interludes
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How do the three virgins preserve themselves from being married off (and thus from losing their purity)? They refuse to…
They refuse to give up Christianity for a new religion
They refuse to give up an ancient religion for Christianity
They refuse to give up Christianity for an ancient religion
They refuse to make any physical contact with a man for life
39
Who was the pageant master?
One person who organizes and oversees a production.
One person who oversees and organizes the actors.
The person who handles the set of a production.
The person who handles the actors of a production.
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Why does God decide that it is time for Everyman to die?
Everyman has impressed God and is invited to heaven
Death confides in God of his affection toward Everyman
Everyman has succumbed to sin and forsaken their god.
God misses Everyman and wants them back in Heaven.
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Who are the two strangers?
Angels.
Spirits.
Soldiers.
Demons.
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Why were certain episodes assigned to particular guilds?
Certain guilds used certain episodes to improve on their skills
Certain guilds used certain episodes to show off their skills
Certain guilds used certain episodes to compete with other guilds
Certain guilds had more knowledge of certain episodes over others
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What was a sottie?
A short sketch often critical of the Church
A short sketch often skeptical of the Church
A long detailed sketch often critical of the Church
A long sketch that showed the Church in a good light.
