Final Exam

A  It has to be hauled around.

B  She’s had it for a long time.

C  It fits a lot of what she wants to fit in it.

D  Her kids live in it.

A  Nora does not have a serious nature.

B  Torvald always treated her as a child and an object that was there to look upon.

C  Nora always buys toys for her children.

D  Nora is so beautiful that she is fragile.

A  True

B  False

A  Servants

B  Lovers

C  Miser

D  All of the answers here

E  Captain

A  False

B  True

A  Answers to big questions on the human condition

B  Empathy

C  Creativity

D  Truth

A  used masks

B  used stock characters

C  was performed by a traveling troupe of professional actors

D  very improvisational

E  all of the answers here

A  Euripides

B  Aeschylus

C  Sophocles

D  Shakespeare

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  father

B  mother

C  brother

D  sister

A  False

B  True

A  to walk upstage

B  to walk downstage

A  All of the answers here

B  Higher literacy rates

C  Dislike for tragedies

D  A rise in the numbers of the middle class

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  Woodnut

B  Papa

C  Iris

D  Sims

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  coronations

B  weddings

C  funerals

D  festivals

A  To write a play to help woo Celimene.

B  To spy on his wife and ensure her loyalty.

C  To learn to act for the town’s big festival.

D  To help him with a comedy skit for his daughters’ school.

A  Tragedy

B  Melodrama

C  Satyr

D  Comedy

A  The producer

B  The King’s mistress

C  The King

D  Margaret’s father

A  A pillow

B  A costume cloak

C  A handkerchief

D  Stage make-up

A  50 shillings

B  50 pounds

C  75 pounds

D  75 shillings

A  Romeo

B  Juliet

C  Mercutio

D  Tybalt

A  The point of view of the protagonist.

B  Imparting information necessary for understanding the story not covered by action on stage.

C  The research provided to the director by the dramaturg.

A  A playwright’s assumption about what is truthful and valuable.

B  All the answers presented here

C  The manner in which the playwright manipulates the means of expression.

D  The manner in which the play is presented in the theatre.

A  Storytelling and imitation

B  Universality and ceremony

C  Rituals and festivals

D  Live performance and audience

A  The idea that (in a thrust theatre) the audience is participates in the action

B  A convention (in a proscenium-arch theatre) that the audience is looking into a room through an invisible fourth wall

C  The wings in a proscenium-arch theatre

A  The altar located in the orchestra of the typical Greek theatre.

B  The machinery that rolled dead characters onto the stage.

C  A mechanical contraption created to save the action from its logical conclusion by flying in supernatural forces at the last minute of the play.

A  A dynamic in which the audience agrees to accept the fictional world of the play on an imaginative level while knowing it to be untrue.

B  A psychological dynamic in which one group of audience members can affect the responses of others to an event, particularly if they share the same cultural background.

C  A technique used by actors in which they defer their own reality to accept that of the play.