THE 2000 Exam 2 questions with
accurate answers
Which of the following is one of the four major areas of design?
- movement design
- musical design
- mask design
- scenic design - correct answer ✔✔Scenic Design
Effective designs must __________.
- attract a high-profile director and producer and devote most of the budget to marketing to
ensure profitability
- replicate the design description in the text
- provide a dramatic departure from the text to demonstrate creativity
- meet the budget and serve the production aesthetics - correct answer ✔✔meet the budget
and serve the production aesthetics
How does the director's production concept affect the designers' work?
- It tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
- It gives designers specific designs to duplicate.
- It reveals whether the designers have done their jobs properly.
- It allows the designers freedom to design the show any way they want. - correct answer ✔✔It
tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
Prior to the invention of indoor European theatres, theatrical scenery was quite __________.
- colorful
, - decadent
- minimal
- realistic - correct answer ✔✔Minimal
Sebastian Serlio, Giacomo Torelli, and Inigo Jones raised __________ to an art form.
- the Übermarionette
- scenic painting
- mask making
- proscenium creation - correct answer ✔✔Scenic painting
Julie Taymor's production of The Lion King is a good example of __________ in its evocation of
both Asian- and African-inspired elements.
- neoclassicism
- realism
- interculturalism
- postmodernism - correct answer ✔✔interculturalism
__________ organized an exhibit of theatrical designs in Boston and New York in 1914 and 1915
that led to the movement known as The New Stagecraft.
- Adolphe Appia
- Sam Hume
- Bertolt Brecht
- Robert Edmond Jones - correct answer ✔✔Sam Hume
Scenographer Josef Svoboda's work became synonymous with __________.
- a design-less theatre
- experiments in multimedia
accurate answers
Which of the following is one of the four major areas of design?
- movement design
- musical design
- mask design
- scenic design - correct answer ✔✔Scenic Design
Effective designs must __________.
- attract a high-profile director and producer and devote most of the budget to marketing to
ensure profitability
- replicate the design description in the text
- provide a dramatic departure from the text to demonstrate creativity
- meet the budget and serve the production aesthetics - correct answer ✔✔meet the budget
and serve the production aesthetics
How does the director's production concept affect the designers' work?
- It tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
- It gives designers specific designs to duplicate.
- It reveals whether the designers have done their jobs properly.
- It allows the designers freedom to design the show any way they want. - correct answer ✔✔It
tells designers how the director envisions the world of the play.
Prior to the invention of indoor European theatres, theatrical scenery was quite __________.
- colorful
, - decadent
- minimal
- realistic - correct answer ✔✔Minimal
Sebastian Serlio, Giacomo Torelli, and Inigo Jones raised __________ to an art form.
- the Übermarionette
- scenic painting
- mask making
- proscenium creation - correct answer ✔✔Scenic painting
Julie Taymor's production of The Lion King is a good example of __________ in its evocation of
both Asian- and African-inspired elements.
- neoclassicism
- realism
- interculturalism
- postmodernism - correct answer ✔✔interculturalism
__________ organized an exhibit of theatrical designs in Boston and New York in 1914 and 1915
that led to the movement known as The New Stagecraft.
- Adolphe Appia
- Sam Hume
- Bertolt Brecht
- Robert Edmond Jones - correct answer ✔✔Sam Hume
Scenographer Josef Svoboda's work became synonymous with __________.
- a design-less theatre
- experiments in multimedia
