Test Bank for The Theatre Experience, 15th Edition by Edwin Wilson,
Alvin Goldfarb
Chapter 01 15e
1) The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from
A) television.
B) radio.
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C) silent movies.
D) computer games.
2) Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the
A) audience.
B) press.
C) ruling class.
D) director.
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.
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.
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.
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,6) In_________ theatre, the emphasis is on education, personal development, or therapy.
A) participatory
B) distanced
C) alienated
D) observed
7) In Shakespeare's own day, women's parts were played by
A) prostitutes.
B) old men.
C) boys.
D) castrati.
8) Rapid movements back and forth in time are called
A) crosscuts.
B) reminiscences.
C) flashbacks.
D) fades.
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.
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.
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,11) When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered
A) realistic.
B) nonrealistic.
C) anachronistic.
D) metaphoric.
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.
13) When a solitary character speaks to the audience, expressing in words a hidden thought, it is
called a(n)
A) anachronism.
B) metaphor.
C) flashback.
D) soliloquy.
14) A theatrical technique in which performers pretend to be using objects that are not actually
present is called
A) pantomime.
B) theatre of image.
C) absurdism.
D) realism.
15) The reenactment of material gathered from actual events is called
A) realism.
B) theatre of fact.
C) dramatic truth.
D) transcriptional theatre.
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, 16) The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by
A) Henrik Ibsen.
B) Anton Chekhov.
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D) August Strindberg.
17) Language is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
18) A flag is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
19) The ship of state is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
20) A bed like cement is an example of a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
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Alvin Goldfarb
Chapter 01 15e
1) The first challenge to theatre as a dramatic medium came from
A) television.
B) radio.
Answers Included ✅
C) silent movies.
D) computer games.
2) Theatre is an event in which the performers are in the presence of the
A) audience.
B) press.
C) ruling class.
D) director.
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.
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.
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.
1
,6) In_________ theatre, the emphasis is on education, personal development, or therapy.
A) participatory
B) distanced
C) alienated
D) observed
7) In Shakespeare's own day, women's parts were played by
A) prostitutes.
B) old men.
C) boys.
D) castrati.
8) Rapid movements back and forth in time are called
A) crosscuts.
B) reminiscences.
C) flashbacks.
D) fades.
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.
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.
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,11) When an element of theatre resembles observed reality, it is considered
A) realistic.
B) nonrealistic.
C) anachronistic.
D) metaphoric.
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.
13) When a solitary character speaks to the audience, expressing in words a hidden thought, it is
called a(n)
A) anachronism.
B) metaphor.
C) flashback.
D) soliloquy.
14) A theatrical technique in which performers pretend to be using objects that are not actually
present is called
A) pantomime.
B) theatre of image.
C) absurdism.
D) realism.
15) The reenactment of material gathered from actual events is called
A) realism.
B) theatre of fact.
C) dramatic truth.
D) transcriptional theatre.
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, 16) The phrase "willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by
A) Henrik Ibsen.
B) Anton Chekhov.
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D) August Strindberg.
17) Language is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
18) A flag is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
19) The ship of state is a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
20) A bed like cement is an example of a
A) symbol.
B) metaphor.
C) simile.
D) anachronism.
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