Final Exam

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

B  Her kids live in it.

C  She’s had it for a long time.

D  It has to be hauled around.

A  Nora does not have a serious nature.

B  Nora always buys toys for her children.

C  Nora is so beautiful that she is fragile.

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

A  True

B  False

A  Miser

B  Servants

C  All of the answers here

D  Lovers

E  Captain

A  True

B  False

A  Creativity

B  Truth

C  Answers to big questions on the human condition

D  Empathy

A  used stock characters

B  was performed by a traveling troupe of professional actors

C  all of the answers here

D  very improvisational

E  used masks

A  Sophocles

B  Shakespeare

C  Euripides

D  Aeschylus

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  mother

B  brother

C  sister

D  father

A  True

B  False

A  to walk downstage

B  to walk upstage

A  All of the answers here

B  A rise in the numbers of the middle class

C  Higher literacy rates

D  Dislike for tragedies

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

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  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  Woodnut

B  Iris

C  Papa

D  Sims

A  True

B  False

A  True

B  False

A  coronations

B  funerals

C  weddings

D  festivals

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

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

C  To write a play to help woo Celimene.

D  To spy on his wife and ensure her loyalty.

A  Tragedy

B  Comedy

C  Satyr

D  Melodrama

A  The King’s mistress

B  The King

C  Margaret’s father

D  The producer

A  A pillow

B  A handkerchief

C  Stage make-up

D  A costume cloak

A  75 pounds

B  50 shillings

C  50 pounds

D  75 shillings

A  Mercutio

B  Romeo

C  Tybalt

D  Juliet

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

B  The research provided to the director by the dramaturg.

C  The point of view of the protagonist.

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

B  All the answers presented here

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

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

A  Rituals and festivals

B  Live performance and audience

C  Storytelling and imitation

D  Universality and ceremony

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

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

C  The wings in a proscenium-arch theatre

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

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

C  The machinery that rolled dead characters onto the stage.

A  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.

B  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.

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