Theatre History

Drama finals are coming up and everyone is tense. Drama is not just acting, but also learning the history. A LOT of history. It is a bit complicated to memorize off of notes so here it is in qiz form.

Are YOU capable of passing your drama final? Do you have the skills and IQ to memorize such history? Do you want to be a great actor? Why am I still talking? Somebody shut me up so this guy can take the drama history quiz!

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. Who was the first actor?
Festus
Thespis
Cletus
Sophocles
4. Dithyramb is an early form of______
opera
bowling
poetry
medicine
5. A tragedy would have a chorus of
12
30
40
50
6. Pompey ordered Vitruvius to write what book?
King James Bible
De Architectura
Harry Potter
7. A Roman scenic element that quickly changes the background is a:
aqueduct
periaktoi
arch
concrete
8. Pulpitum is Latin (Roman) for
applause
mime
scaenae
stage
9. Which Roman Playwright's work did Shakespeare adapt into Titus Andronicus?
Terence
Seneca
ovid
Cicero
10. Where in the theatre space did the Chorus perform?
audience
skene
proskenion
orkestra
11. When was the first pemanent theatre built in Rome?
55 BC
476 AD
410 AD
30 AD
12. Pageant wagons carried what type of plays?
cycle
opera
mime
noe of these
13. The Medici family ruled ________ in the 1400s
Rome
Carthage
Athens
Florence
14. Who rewrote Vitruvius" book in 1545?
Serlio
Davinci
Dante
Sabbattini
15. The father of Stage Lighting is
Serlio
Davinci
dante
Sabbattini
16. Constantinople fell in _______ triggering the Middle Ages
55 BC
476 AD
410 AD
30 AD
17. Bard means:
accountant
storyteller
director
actor
18. The edict of Approval under Charles II allows:
men to act in the city
women to act onstage
divorce
murder
19. The Merry Monarch refers to
Louis XVI
Charles I
Charles V
Charles II
20. The Siege of Rhodes is the first English _________, written by Davenant
play
opera
mime
masque
21. Angle perspective (2 or more vanishing points) was mastered by the____________ family
Medici
Serlio
Vitruvius
Bebiena
22. The Marriage of Figaro was written by_____ and later adapted by Mozart
Seneca
Beaumarchais
Moliere
Serlio
23. The common belief of where Theatre began was where?
New Jersey
Rome
Greece
Turkey
24. Who is the Greek god of wine and fertility?
Dionysis
Thespis
Zeus
Oedipus
25. Deus ex Machina is:
a god from a machine
a way to end a play
a poor way to end a play
all of these
26. Theatre was banned by the Catholic Church during:
Golden age
Roman times
Middle Ages
Italian Renaissance
27. A brief outline of a plot is a
scenario
improvisation
used at the Globe
28. Shakespeare was a member of what acting company?
the Globuals
Lord Chamberlain's Men
Lord Admiral's Men
Spinal Tap
29. Who's plays were performed at the Globe Theatre?
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Kemp
Burbage
30. Who wrote the "Imaginary Invalid"?
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Moliere
Cervantes
31. Who led the English Revolution and gained ruling power?
Shakespeare
Cromwell
Beckett
Henry VIII
32. Who ruled England during the Restoration?
Louis XVI
Charles I
Charles V
Charles II
33. where was Cervantes when he wrote Don Quixote?
on a ship
one a battlefield
prison
traveling the countryside
34. Which country began the Renaissance?
Greece
Italy
France
England
35. Sophocles wrote;
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Oedipus at Colonus
all of these
36. Which is not one of the three unities of Greek Theatre?
time
place
action
tragos
37. The "seeing place" is known as a:
theatron
stage
arch
window
38. From the Greek word meaning, "song of the goat", we get:
comedy
tragedy
satyr
pastoral
39. Who wrote the famous play version of "Dr. Faustus"?
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Moliere
Marlowe
40. Under which English rules were women allowed to act in the theatre?
Henry VIII
Elizabeth
Charles I
Charles II
41. A famous designer/producer of masques with Ben Jonson, in England was:
Shakespeare
Inigo Jones
Ibsen
Moliere
42. Which country had the last Renaissance?
Spain
Italy
France
England

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