THEA - Final Exam Questions and Answers 2023 with
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His or her primary job is to have wealth of background and information on which to
make an informed opinion about a play?
Critic/Primary
They are the unifying organizer of a production?
The Director
This makes the product of Useful Art more aesthetically pleasing?
Decorative Art
This allows you to see a number of plays within a Theatre's Season?
Season Tickets
The sense that the characters on stage are alone with each other and are not being
watched by hundreds of people is call?
Fourth Wall
They have enough power or "Clout" to insist on changing or re-working a play?
Auteur Director
This allows the audience member to empathize with the characters and their situation.
Willing suspension of disbelief
This person organizes and runs a production?
Stage Manager
Who is responsible for formulating the Four Causes of Art?
Aristotle
Which of the following is NOT one of the Four Causes of Art?
Primal
What are the Four Causes of Art?
Formal, Material, Efficient, and Final
Where was the birthplace of Western Drama?
Greece
What is the Greek word for Actor?
Hypokrite (means wearer of mask)
Who wrote "Oedipus the King"?
Sophocles
In Roman Theatre when were most of the plays performed?
During Festivals
What was the raise stage of Roman Theatre called?
Scenae Frons
In a Greek play the main character possess a "hamartia" : what is this?
A tragic flaw
What does Oedipus translate as?
Swollen Foot
What character is important to the story of Oedipus but never seen?
Lauis
Who is Oedipus' mother?
Jocasta
, Who are Antigone are Ismene?
Sisters/Daughters
Which of the following was the first Elizabethan playwright to become "poet Laureate"?
Ben Johnson
To which of the Kings was "The King's Men attached?"
James I
The theatre that William Shakespeare is most closely associated with and built?
The Globe
The theatre of the Elizabethan period, such as those built by James Burbage and
Williams Shakespeare, were usually of what kind of construction?
Thrust and Amphitheatre
The first folio, a collection of Shakespeare's play, was complied by?
Actors in Shakespeare's company, John Heminge & Henry Condell
The term "box office" comes from what Elizabethan theatre practice?
A constable was hired to guard the "box" in which payment for entry was placed.
When Shakespeare died, he left his wife Anna Hathaway what?
His second best bed
What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?
Anna Hathaway
For whom did Shakespeare write most of his starring role?
Richard Burbage
From whom were Elizabethan stage practices learned?
Medieval Drama & Pageant Wagon
What type of theatre presentation was developed during the reign of James I which
contained three spectacular danced done by professional and courtiers?
Comedie del Art
What is the name of the Father who built his son Richard a theater?
James Burbage
In what town does the play "A Raisin in the Sun" take place?
Chicago
Who is the widow in the play?
Lena Younger
Who does not appear in the play?
Walter Younger, Sr.
The family is struggling over what to do with the "money". Where did it come from?
Insurance Policy
What does the mother want to do with the money?
Buy a house
What does the son want to do with the money?
Invest in a liquor store
Who is Mr. Linder?
Head of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association
What happens to the son's wife that puts extra pressure on the home situation?
She becomes pregnant
The son's sister wants to be a:
Doctor
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His or her primary job is to have wealth of background and information on which to
make an informed opinion about a play?
Critic/Primary
They are the unifying organizer of a production?
The Director
This makes the product of Useful Art more aesthetically pleasing?
Decorative Art
This allows you to see a number of plays within a Theatre's Season?
Season Tickets
The sense that the characters on stage are alone with each other and are not being
watched by hundreds of people is call?
Fourth Wall
They have enough power or "Clout" to insist on changing or re-working a play?
Auteur Director
This allows the audience member to empathize with the characters and their situation.
Willing suspension of disbelief
This person organizes and runs a production?
Stage Manager
Who is responsible for formulating the Four Causes of Art?
Aristotle
Which of the following is NOT one of the Four Causes of Art?
Primal
What are the Four Causes of Art?
Formal, Material, Efficient, and Final
Where was the birthplace of Western Drama?
Greece
What is the Greek word for Actor?
Hypokrite (means wearer of mask)
Who wrote "Oedipus the King"?
Sophocles
In Roman Theatre when were most of the plays performed?
During Festivals
What was the raise stage of Roman Theatre called?
Scenae Frons
In a Greek play the main character possess a "hamartia" : what is this?
A tragic flaw
What does Oedipus translate as?
Swollen Foot
What character is important to the story of Oedipus but never seen?
Lauis
Who is Oedipus' mother?
Jocasta
, Who are Antigone are Ismene?
Sisters/Daughters
Which of the following was the first Elizabethan playwright to become "poet Laureate"?
Ben Johnson
To which of the Kings was "The King's Men attached?"
James I
The theatre that William Shakespeare is most closely associated with and built?
The Globe
The theatre of the Elizabethan period, such as those built by James Burbage and
Williams Shakespeare, were usually of what kind of construction?
Thrust and Amphitheatre
The first folio, a collection of Shakespeare's play, was complied by?
Actors in Shakespeare's company, John Heminge & Henry Condell
The term "box office" comes from what Elizabethan theatre practice?
A constable was hired to guard the "box" in which payment for entry was placed.
When Shakespeare died, he left his wife Anna Hathaway what?
His second best bed
What was the name of Shakespeare's wife?
Anna Hathaway
For whom did Shakespeare write most of his starring role?
Richard Burbage
From whom were Elizabethan stage practices learned?
Medieval Drama & Pageant Wagon
What type of theatre presentation was developed during the reign of James I which
contained three spectacular danced done by professional and courtiers?
Comedie del Art
What is the name of the Father who built his son Richard a theater?
James Burbage
In what town does the play "A Raisin in the Sun" take place?
Chicago
Who is the widow in the play?
Lena Younger
Who does not appear in the play?
Walter Younger, Sr.
The family is struggling over what to do with the "money". Where did it come from?
Insurance Policy
What does the mother want to do with the money?
Buy a house
What does the son want to do with the money?
Invest in a liquor store
Who is Mr. Linder?
Head of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association
What happens to the son's wife that puts extra pressure on the home situation?
She becomes pregnant
The son's sister wants to be a:
Doctor
