Theatre History II Quiz Final Showdown

Which of these plays is an example of American Expressionism?

Who wrote Mother Courage and Her Children?

Who is generally regarded as the "father of Chicano theatre"?

Which of the following is not a common stylistic element of melodrama?

True or False? The Moscow Art Theatre was founded in the 1920s.

When did the Black Arts Movement and the Chicano Theatre Movement begin?

Who wrote the play Indecent?

The Federal Theatre Project produced a wide variety of theatre including children's theatre, musicals, and Shakespeare.

Las Dos Caras del Patroncito is an example of what Chicano theatre form?

Which of these theatre styles developed first?

Which of these playwrights is known for their revolutionary use of subtext?

Documentary theatre exclusively uses exact words from historical records or interviews as the text for scripts.

Which of these theatre artists is NOT primarily a designer?

Which of these was not a stock character in a minstrel show?

In Uncle Vanya, who is Vanya an uncle to?

True or false? The practice of blackface minstrelsy was limited to theatre performance and ended in the 1880s.

The Living Newspaper was developed as part of what program in the 1930s?

The assassination of which activist played a role in the formation of the Black Arts Movement?

The Black Arts Movement and the Chicano Theatre Movement developed around the same time.

Which of these is not a play written by Anton Chekhov?

Which of these avant garde styles was associated with Italian fascism?

Which of these theatre artists is not a director?

Who was the director of the Federal Theatre Project?

Which avant-garde theatre style started in Zurich during World War I and featured a rejection of logic and rationality?

Which of these is a goal of Bertolt Brecht’s theatrical style of Epic Theatre?