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What are tropes?
What is a mansion?
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What is a mansion?
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.
A structure for a biblical tale. Could be constructed/be an existing church
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What are tropes?
Extended musical passages during church, which later added words to aid.
Musical passages sung during church that NEVER added words.
Extended word passages during church, which later added songs to aid memory
Church services with no music.
3
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
4
Why does God decide that it is time for Everyman to die?
Everyman has impressed God and is invited to heaven
God misses Everyman and wants them back in Heaven.
Everyman has succumbed to sin and forsaken their god.
Death confides in God of his affection toward Everyman
5
Why is Dulcitius unsuccessful in his plan to have sex with the virgins? What is comical about the scene?
The virgins ambush him, and throw a bag of soot on his face
He has a big meal with his buddies instead.
The soldiers stop him, and he tries to have sex with them instead
He has sex with pots and pans, it covers him in soot
6
Why are morality plays considered allegorical?
Characters undertook a journey through which they always die.
Characters undertook a journey and they face a deep tragic lesson.
Characters undertook a journey through which they learned the moral lesson.
Characters undertook a journey through which they never learn moral lesson.
7
What were the secrets of stage tech?
They’re secrets, no one knows.
Elaborate organization
All of the electricity they had to power it.
Special effects.
8
What were the mystery/cycle plays’ dramatic structure?
Musical interludes
Episodic.
Five Act Structure
Three Acts
9
What was the purpose of tropes?
To remove the musical portion of church services and delete words.
To expand the musical portion of services and add words to add challenges.
To remove music from church and only have words.
To expand the musical portion of church and add words to music as an aid.
10
What was a farce?
A dramedy
A watered down type of comedy.
A melodrama
An exaggerated type of comedy
11
In what ways were morality plays different from mystery plays?
Morality plays used allegorical characters to teach biblical lessons.
Morality plays used moral characters to teach common lesson.
Morality plays focused on biblical stories.
Morality plays used Allegorical characters to teach an abstract lesson.
12
What was an interlude?
A theatrical dance staged during the courses of a banquet
A theatrical piece staged before the courses of a banquet.
A theatrical performance staged after the course of a banquet
A theatrical piece staged between the courses of a banquet.
13
What were the mystery/cycle plays?
Elaborate plays for traders and craftsmen to display their abilities.
Elaborate plays for artisans and smiths to display their abilities.
Simplistic plays for traders and slaves to try new abilities.
Simplistic plays for nobles and soldiers to try new abilities.
14
How did the relationship between stage and audience vary?
The audience is viewed from one side and only one side,
People closest to the stage sat, and people in the back stood on platforms.
The audience is viewed from all sides, three sides, or just one side.
Whoever was close to the stage stood & people in the back sat in box seats.
15
True or False: liturgical drama could be staged in simultaneous/multiple settings.
False
True
16
What was the Feast of Corpus Christi and why was it important?
A non-liturgical ceremony that staged outdoor plays, for the upper class.
A liturgical ceremony that staged indoor plays, only the rich were invited.
Liturgical ceremony that staged outdoor plays. Made church relevant to all.
A festival that had all plays indoors, to make church more relevant.
17
Usually, who were the performers in medieval theatre?
Experienced actors, typically typecasted.
Amateur actors, typically typecasted.
Experienced Actors, never typecasted.
Anyone that was willing to perform.
18
What is the purpose of the play as announced by the Messenger?
To make you cry.
To show how transitory life and moral plays are
To prove everyone dies no matter what.
To suggest a more pure way of living.
19
Why were certain episodes assigned to particular guilds?
Certain guilds used certain episodes to improve on their skills
Certain guilds used certain episodes to compete with other guilds
Certain guilds used certain episodes to show off their skills
Certain guilds had more knowledge of certain episodes over others
20
What is liturgical drama?
Late medieval plays in Latin with one group singing.
Medieval plays in Latin with music, and two groups singing to each other.
Early medieval plays in french with two groups singing.
Early medieval plays in latin that had no music
21
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 make any physical contact with a man for life
They refuse to give up Christianity for an ancient religion
They refuse to give up an ancient religion for Christianity
22
Whom does Everyman ask and does not accept to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife?
Beauty, confession, knowledge, cousin
Five-wits, greed, cousin, lust
Silly goose, Beauty, Stinker, Fellowship
Fellowship, kindred, cousin, goods
23
What was the Feast of Fools?
Allowed the upper clergy to ridicule common folk & the church life.
Superiors could ridicule the lesser clergy and their simple upbringing
Inversion of status that allowed lesser clergy to ridicule their superiors
Festival that refrained the lesser clergy from ridiculing superiors.
24
What are the elements of continuity between earlier Roman and Medieval performance?
Medieval mimes became nomadic bands, skops, and festivals.
Roman mimes became nomadic bands, skops, and festivals.
Roman nomadic bands, became medieval mimes
Roman mimes became musicals, skops, and competitions.
25
How does each sister die?
Agape & Chionia die in a fire, Irena is killed by Dulcitius’ bow & arrow.
All three are shot by Sisinnius.
Agape & Chionia die in a fire, Irena is killed by Sisinnius' bow & arrow.
All three die in a fire.
26
Which of the extant cycle plays series is the most complete?
N_Town (24 plays).
Wakefield (48 plays).
The York Cycle (48 plays).
The Chester Cycle (42 plays)
27
What is station drama?
A bus station drama.
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"
Drama where the antagonist confronts a series of blessings.
28
What was the
Quem quaeritis?
Trope that was introduced in ca. 845 and meant “Whom ye be?” 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. 532 and meant “Hey yo what up?” in Latin
29
What is processional staging?
The use of hanging mechanics from mansions in a platea.
Wagon, typically 2 stories, with 6 wheels made to move from place to place.
Huge platforms of small scenic mansions, usually in an open courtyard.
Small stages that couldn’t move, in an open courtyard.
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What are morality plays?
Drama that aims to teach a lesson using allegorical characters.
Drama that aims to unteach a lesson using allegorical characters.
Drama that aims to intimidate using religious characters.
Drama that aims to teach a lesson using non-allegorical characters.
31
Who was in charge of producing/staging the cycle plays?
Guilds
All of the above.
Confraternities
The clergy.
32
Why do the soldiers flee when they see Dulcitius afterwards?
They mistake him for an angry God
They see a figure looming behind Dulcitius
They mistake him for a demon.
They actually just saw a bee.
33
What is the platea?
The upper playing space of a mansion in liturgical drama.
A plate placed on an altar to pray for liturgical drama.
The sides of the stage that we would consider the wings
The central open playing space in staging liturgical drama.
34
What are the main staging areas of liturgical drama?
Platea and mansions.
Skene and Theatron
Platea and hovels.
Hovels and nave
35
What was a sottie?
A short sketch often skeptical of the Church
A long sketch that showed the Church in a good light.
A short sketch often critical of the Church
A long detailed sketch often critical of the Church
36
Who are the two strangers?
Angels.
Spirits.
Demons.
Soldiers.
37
Who helps Good-Deeds grow strong enough?
Both Knowledge and Confession
Beauty
Confession
Knowledge
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What is stationary staging?
Small stages that couldn’t move, in an open courtyard.
Staging that took place in a singular location, usually in open courtyards
Wagon, typically 2 stories, with 6 wheels made to move from place to place
Huge platforms of small scenic mansions, usually in an open courtyard.
39
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 that wasn’t translated; only the upper class could understand.
Drama in French that only the french could understand.
40
What are the centuries bookending the Medieval period in Europe?
6th - 10th/12th
4th - 14th/16th
4th - 13th/15th
6th - 14th/16th
41
Who is the only one who accompanies Everyman?
Knowledge
Five-wits
No one accompanies Everyman
Good-Deeds
42
Who was the pageant master?
The person who handles the actors of a production.
One person who organizes and oversees a production.
The person who handles the set of a production.
One person who oversees and organizes the actors.
43
Which of the following are miracles/supernatural events that occur in
Dulcitius
?
The soldiers becoming lost at the mountain.
All of the above.
The two older sisters’ bodies not burning.
Clothes sticking to the virgins’ bodies .
