THE 2000 final exam questions and answers with solutions 2025
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Module 1 introduced the idea of the 'socially theatrical' person. Is this the same as theatre?
-yes
-no
-hella no
-B & C but not A - ANSWER B & C but not A
Section 1 discussed professional wrestling. Is The Undertaker doing theatre (according to your reading)?
- Yes. Theatre in 'th...
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Module 1 introduced the idea of the 'socially theatrical' person. Is this the same as theatre?
-yes
-no
-hella no
-B & C but not A - ANSWER B & C but not A
Section 1 discussed professional wrestling. Is The Undertaker doing theatre (according to your reading)?
- Yes. Theatre in 'the raw.'
-no
-hella no
-B & C but not A - ANSWER Yes. Theatre in 'the raw'
On stage, "we will accept that a stage has become an ocean for the duration of a performance." What is
this called in theatre?
-learned behavior
-social modeling
-stage convention
-none of the above - ANSWER stage convention
To cry at the death of Mufasa in a production of The Lion King means you have...
-become a snowflake
-suspended your disbelief
-forgotten it is a talking lion and they don't exist
-none of the above - ANSWER suspended your disbelief
Can a bench be a car?
-In a theatre, yes
,-If there is an accepted stage convention, yes
-If you have suspended your disbelief, yes
-all of the above - ANSWER all of the above
"A strong theatrical event has an agreed upon script/event that has been created by a script writer or
playwright." The assumption when going to a play is that something interesting is going to happen
worthy of our attention. Which of the following is more likely to appear in a stage play?
-a man sits alone, silently typing away at a computer
-An empty stage sits quietly when the curtain rises
-a 12 year old vampire with a blood allergy has arrived at summer camp and has forgotten his sun
screen
-a woman listens to music and chops vegetables - ANSWER a 12 year old vampire with a blood allergy
has arrived at summer camp and has forgotten his sun screen
What is a big difference between live theatre and film?
-the popcorn is different
-the smells are different
-the immediacy is different
-all of the above - ANSWER the immediacy is different
Live theatre events are always different each night whereas a film never changes. What example/s of this
was given?
-During a showing of Avengers: The Age of Ultron, a cell phone goes off. The person is rude and begins
to talk loudly on the phone. Mark Ruffalo can't hear this in film and respond AS THE HULK, "Get off
phone, puny man, or Hulk SMASH!" No, it is always the same performance no matter what.
-a ten-year-old girl stood up in the front row and yelled at the actor playing Falstaff. She said, "I can't
understand a damn word you're saying! And besides! This is a re-run! I saw this show last week!"
-Film and theatre are exactly the same
-A & B but not C - ANSWER A & B but not C
Are Reality TV shows and stage Realism real?
-No
,-Hella No
-For God's sake, NO!
-all of the above - ANSWER all of the above
What, exactly, is Realism?
-theatrical illusion
-truth seeming
-performance style
-all of the above - ANSWER all of the above
Who, or what, is Og?
-The plumber on 42nd Street Broadway Theatre
-a sensitive theoretical caveman
-The first extant dramatic poem
-all of the above - ANSWER a sensitive theoretical caveman
The most common Western dramatic form of storytelling uses...
-bait and switch
-cause and effect
-read and weep
-all of the above - ANSWER cause and effect
If you build logically toward a climatic end of a story, this is probably what form of dramatic storytelling
structure?
-architectural
-foundational
-Climatic
-none of the above - ANSWER climatic
, __________ explores the belief that the entire world is _________ and therefore any truthful
exploration of the human experience will also be __________ and make little sense.
-weirdism/weird
-evilism/evil
-absurdism/absurd
-none of the above - ANSWER absurdism/absurd
It may be assumed that we developed basic language skills before we began telling actual story.
-True
-False - ANSWER true
Some surmise that the ability to tell story is not only entertaining and sometimes educational, but may
be...
-prophetic
-irrelevant
-a key human survival trait
-all of the above - ANSWER a key human survival trait
A _________ is nothing without the story behind it that explains it.
-feeling
-ritual
-truth
-none of the above - ANSWER ritual
According to a major theory presented in your module, the first story and ritual was invented...
-by Og
-to call on the spirits for aid
-to create hope
-all of the above - ANSWER all of the above
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