Theatre History II Final UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Theatre History II Final UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A key idea of the Age of Enlightenment (associated with the 18th century) is: - CORRECT
ANSWER- Human beings are rational and perfectible and societies can learn from
history.
In The Cherry Orchard, what happens to the or...
Theatre History II Final UPDATED Actual
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A key idea of the Age of Enlightenment (associated with the 18th century) is: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Human beings are rational and perfectible and societies can learn from
history.
In The Cherry Orchard, what happens to the orchard? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The
businessman Lopakhin buys it at auction.
The writers of realistic drama generally handled characterization in this way: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- They created individualized characters that defied stereotypes.
Realistic drama frequently features women characters struggling against the limitations of
middle-class life. These depictions: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Usually reinforce
traditional gender stereotypes.
Meyerhold developed ________ as a physical approach to acting, less concerned with
behavioral and psychological verisimilitude. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Biomechanics
A soubrette is: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The pert and clever young woman of light
comedy
All of the following are characteristics of melodrama EXCEPT: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
The characters are morally complex.
A new style of acting was required for realistic drama. The most systematic approach to
realistic acting was developed by: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Constantine Stanislavski
The idea of the fourth wall originated with: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Denis Diderot
Ibsen incorporated some features of the well-made play into A Doll House, but in other ways
broke from its conventions. Which of the following is a feature of A Doll House but NOT the
, well-made play? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Morality and immorality are relative and not
easily defined
Henrik Ibsen adapted the form of ______ and used it in plays of modern life critical of
bourgeois morality and society. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the well-made play
What does the orchard of the title of The Cherry Orchard symbolize? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- A dying way of life.
In A Doll House, Krogstad threatens to blackmail Nora because she: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Forged her father's signature to obtain a loan.
At the end of Miss Julie, Jean encourages Miss Julie to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Commit suicide.
The well-made play frequently features: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Letters and lost
documents
Anton Chekhov died of: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Tuberculosis
In a well-made play, the "obligatory scene" features: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
showdown between the major characters
The action of _________ drama is episodic and much like morality drama. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Expressionist
These staging practices were used during the 20th century in order to change the relationship
between performers and audience members: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Theatre in the
round and environmental theatre
Although usually associated with Brecht, many of the techniques of this type of theatre were
developed by Erwin Piscator in Berlin during the 1920s and early 1930s, and by Vsevolod
Meyerhold after the Russian Revolution of 1917. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Epic
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