Final Exam

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

B  It has to be hauled around.

C  She’s had it for a long time.

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 is so beautiful that she is fragile.

D  Nora always buys toys for her children.

A  False

B  True

A  All of the answers here

B  Lovers

C  Servants

D  Captain

E  Miser

A  False

B  True

A  Truth

B  Creativity

C  Empathy

D  Answers to big questions on the human condition

A  used masks

B  very improvisational

C  was performed by a traveling troupe of professional actors

D  all of the answers here

E  used stock characters

A  Aeschylus

B  Sophocles

C  Euripides

D  Shakespeare

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  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  brother

B  father

C  mother

D  sister

A  False

B  True

A  to walk upstage

B  to walk downstage

A  Higher literacy rates

B  All of the answers here

C  A rise in the numbers of the middle class

D  Dislike for tragedies

A  True

B  False

A  False

B  True

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  False

B  True

A  True

B  False

A  Iris

B  Sims

C  Woodnut

D  Papa

A  False

B  True

A  False

B  True

A  funerals

B  coronations

C  festivals

D  weddings

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

B  To write a play to help woo Celimene.

C  To spy on his wife and ensure her loyalty.

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

A  Melodrama

B  Tragedy

C  Satyr

D  Comedy

A  Margaret’s father

B  The producer

C  The King’s mistress

D  The King

A  A costume cloak

B  A pillow

C  Stage make-up

D  A handkerchief

A  75 shillings

B  50 pounds

C  50 shillings

D  75 pounds

A  Mercutio

B  Romeo

C  Juliet

D  Tybalt

A  The research provided to the director by the dramaturg.

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

C  The point of view of the protagonist.

A  All the answers presented here

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

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

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

A  Universality and ceremony

B  Rituals and festivals

C  Live performance and audience

D  Storytelling and imitation

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

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

C  The machinery that rolled dead characters onto the stage.

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

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 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.