Theater History Review

Question 1

Lorraine Hansburry was the first African American playwright and wrote this important play..

Accepted Answer

A Raisin in the Sun

Question 2

Charles II lived in exile in France

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What character's costume looks like a patchwork quilt?

Accepted Answer

Harlequin

Question 4

What do we call the arch at the front of a stage what creates the "picture frame"?

Accepted Answer

Proscenium Arch

Question 5

Aescheylus wrote what kind of plays?

Accepted Answer

Tragedies

Question 6

The Country Wife was one of the first famous realistic plays.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

What book did Aristotle write?

Accepted Answer

The Poetics

Question 8

Who wrote the play & novel, The Three Musketeers?

Accepted Answer

Dumas

Question 9

Which type of plays did the Romans prefer?

Accepted Answer

Comedy

Question 10

What type of plays were becoming popular by the end of the middle ages?

Accepted Answer

Secular / Non-Religious

Question 11

David Garrick was England's greatest actor.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Who is considered the first actor?

Accepted Answer

Thespis

Question 13

What was the major dramatic form during the 20th Century?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 14

A set of Tropes performed together are known as?

Accepted Answer

Cycles

Question 15

How many people attended the yearly festival honoring Dionysus?

Accepted Answer

15,000

Question 16

Who was a famous Russian playwright?

Accepted Answer

Anton Chekov

Question 17

Romantic heroes relied on what to guide them?

Accepted Answer

Emotions & Feelings

Question 18

Menander wrote what kind of plays?

Accepted Answer

Comedies

Question 19

What century was Romanticism the major art form?

Accepted Answer

19th Century

Question 20

What musical was the first to have over 3,000 performances on Broadway?

Accepted Answer

Fiddler on the Roof

Question 21

The School for Scandal was written by David Garrick.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 22

Where did the Romantic movement begin?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 23

How many Theaters did the Romans build?

Accepted Answer

125

Question 24

What were the names of the performers during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

Minstrels

Question 25

Sophocles wrote what kind of plays?

Accepted Answer

Tragedies

Question 26

What does the term Renaissance mean?

Accepted Answer

Rebirth

Question 27

Restoration actresses were not very talented.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

What type of scenery did the Italians develop?

Accepted Answer

3-dimensional

Question 29

Henrik Ibsen is known as the father of what?

Accepted Answer

Realism

Question 30

What do most historians agree was the first musical?

Accepted Answer

The Black Crook

Question 31

Who wrote Cats & Phantom of the Opera?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Lloyd Weber

Question 32

What Greek Technical Theatre Element is this?

Accepted Answer

Machine

Question 33

What Greek Technical Theater element is this?

Accepted Answer

Ekkyklema

Question 34

Who wrote Oklahoma! and Sound of Music?

Accepted Answer

Rodgers & Hammerstein II

Question 35

Masks showed us what?

Accepted Answer

Age & Emotion

Question 36

What two designers moved toward 3-dimensional scenery?

Accepted Answer

Appia & Craig

Question 37

What developed out of the elaborate Italian productions?

Accepted Answer

Opera

Question 38

Wandering troupes during the Renaissance performed what type of popular entertainment?

Accepted Answer

Commedia dell' arte

Question 39

What two issues are the subjects of George Bernard Shaw's plays?

Accepted Answer

Political & Social Issues

Question 40

Who was one of the theater's first women playwrights?

Accepted Answer

Aphra Behn

Question 41

Euripedes wrote what kind of plays?

Accepted Answer

Tragedies

Question 42

Who was the famous Spanish playwright who wrote over 700 plays?

Accepted Answer

Lope De Vega

Question 43

Who shut down the Roman theatre?

Accepted Answer

Christians

Question 44

Where is the Guthrie Theater?

Accepted Answer

Minneapolis

Question 45

What Greek Technical Theater element is this?

Accepted Answer

Periaktoi

Question 46

Who wrote West Side Story, Company, and A Little Night Music?

Accepted Answer

Stephen Sondheim

Question 47

What major change did Charles II bring with him from France?

Accepted Answer

women being allowed to perform on stage.

Question 48

What director brought a real room on stage?

Accepted Answer

Belasco

Question 49

Aristophanes wrote what kind of plays?

Accepted Answer

Comedies

Question 50

What type of play emphasizes the story rather than the characters?

Accepted Answer

Melodrama

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