THEA 131 (Art Humanities and Theater)
SALAZAR FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE SOLUTION AND 100% VERIFIED
BRADELY UNIVERSITY.
The Elizabethan staging conventions were an adaptation of medieval staging
conventions.
True
Opera emerged as an attempt to recreate the relationship between music and
speech found in Greek drama.
True
Which was not one of the stock characters in an Italian commedia performance?
Rudolpho
In The Good Person of Setzuan a kind-hearted prostitute named Shen Te
disguises herself as her hard-hearted cousin Shui Ta because she finds it
impossible to be good in an economic system that forces people to do bad
things in order to survive.
True
Which theorist saw the director as the supreme, unifying theatre artist and
wanted to replace actors with large puppets?
Edward Gordon Craig
At which modernist group's performance might "chance poems," music, and
dances be included?
Dadaists
Antonin Artaud advocated a "theatre of cruelty" wherein "cruelty" refers to:
The audience being forced to confront itself in order to purge the unconscious mind
of destructive impulses
, Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" is an example of an "Epic Theatre" play.
False
Which of the following was not an artistic movement that challenged Realism?
Materialism
Oscar Wilde and his play The Importance of Being Earnest could be considered
part of which movement that believed life imitates art?
Art for Art's Sake
Which is NOT an absurdist playwright?
Arthur Miller
The book uses which play to examine Expressionism?
The Hairy Ape
In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one major theme is the isolation and
loneliness of human beings.
True
What is the name given to a musical wherein songs and dances seem like a
logical extension of the dramatic action?
Book musical
The Federal Theatre Project:
Was a nationwide program that aimed to provide jobs and Americans with free,
adult, uncensored theatre.
Which is a typical Futurist practice?
Compression of a full-length play's essence into a few moments
What musical is often cited as the first to fully integrate music, story, dance and
visual elements to support the dramatic action?
Oklahoma!
Expressionism was the first artistic movement to reject representationalism (the
long-standing relationship between perception and representation)
SALAZAR FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE SOLUTION AND 100% VERIFIED
BRADELY UNIVERSITY.
The Elizabethan staging conventions were an adaptation of medieval staging
conventions.
True
Opera emerged as an attempt to recreate the relationship between music and
speech found in Greek drama.
True
Which was not one of the stock characters in an Italian commedia performance?
Rudolpho
In The Good Person of Setzuan a kind-hearted prostitute named Shen Te
disguises herself as her hard-hearted cousin Shui Ta because she finds it
impossible to be good in an economic system that forces people to do bad
things in order to survive.
True
Which theorist saw the director as the supreme, unifying theatre artist and
wanted to replace actors with large puppets?
Edward Gordon Craig
At which modernist group's performance might "chance poems," music, and
dances be included?
Dadaists
Antonin Artaud advocated a "theatre of cruelty" wherein "cruelty" refers to:
The audience being forced to confront itself in order to purge the unconscious mind
of destructive impulses
, Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" is an example of an "Epic Theatre" play.
False
Which of the following was not an artistic movement that challenged Realism?
Materialism
Oscar Wilde and his play The Importance of Being Earnest could be considered
part of which movement that believed life imitates art?
Art for Art's Sake
Which is NOT an absurdist playwright?
Arthur Miller
The book uses which play to examine Expressionism?
The Hairy Ape
In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one major theme is the isolation and
loneliness of human beings.
True
What is the name given to a musical wherein songs and dances seem like a
logical extension of the dramatic action?
Book musical
The Federal Theatre Project:
Was a nationwide program that aimed to provide jobs and Americans with free,
adult, uncensored theatre.
Which is a typical Futurist practice?
Compression of a full-length play's essence into a few moments
What musical is often cited as the first to fully integrate music, story, dance and
visual elements to support the dramatic action?
Oklahoma!
Expressionism was the first artistic movement to reject representationalism (the
long-standing relationship between perception and representation)
