,The Theatre Experience, 14e (Wilson)
Chapter 1 The Audience: Its Role and Imagination
1) The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from
A) television.
B) radio.
C) silent movies.
D) computer games.
Answer: C
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LO: Recall that live theatre thrives despite changes in technology
2) Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the
A) audience.
B) press.
C) ruling class.
D) director.
Answer: A
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LO: Explain the relationship between the actor and audience in theatre
3) One of the things that film can do that theatre cannot be
A) create numerous computerized and/or mechanical special effects.
B) show outdoor shots made from helicopters.
C) instantaneously cut from one scene to another.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Answer: D
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LO: Describe the essence of theatre as a performing art rather than a visual art
4) At the heart of the theatre experience is the
A) director-performer relationship.
B) performer-audience relationship.
C) audience-director relationship.
D) performer-author relationship.
Answer: B
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LO: Explain the relationship between the actor and audience in theatre
,5) The degree of separation between the object or event that an artist creates and the audience
that observes it is called
A) aesthetic distance.
B) intellectual separation.
C) reinforcement.
D) alienation.
, 9) An anachronism involves
A) the relating of a story or event that happened prior to the start of the play.
B) the refusal of the audience to suspend disbelief during a portion of the play.
C) use of a metaphor to communicate the underlying meaning of the play.
D) placing some character or event outside its proper time sequence.
Answer: D
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LO: Illustrate the use of imagination in theatre
10) When we say that one thing is like another, it is called a simile; when we say one thing is
another, that is called a(n)
A) anachronism.
B) symbol.
C) metaphor.
D) substitution.
Answer: C
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LO: Explain the use of metaphor as a tool of imagination
11) When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered
A) realistic.
B) nonrealistic.
C) anachronistic.
D) metaphoric.
Answer: A
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LO: Contrast realism and nonrealism
12) Realism became the dominant form of European drama in the
A) Elizabethan era.
B) early eighteenth century.
C) middle of the twentieth century.
D) late nineteenth century.
Answer: D
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LO: Contrast realism and nonrealism
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