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Question: Which most fully describes the qualities of effective dramatic action?
Choices:
It should engage and maintain interest
It should be internally consistent
It should be complete and self-contained
All of these
It should be deliberately shaped to reveal its purpose and goal
Question: Which statement accurately reflects similarities between theatrical performance and sports?
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Both have specialized dress for their participants
Both have a special playing space or area for the activity
Both have players and spectators
None of these
All of these
Question: Audience response to a performance can be affected by which factor?
Choices:
None of these
Other audience members
Each audience members’ imagination and concentration
All of these
The size and shape of the auditorium
Question: Which statement best describes “willing suspension of disbelief”?
Choices:
A dynamic in which the audience agrees to accept the fictional world of the play on an imaginative level while knowing it to be untrue.
A technique used by actors in which they defer their own reality to accept that of the play
A psychological dynamic in which one group of audience members can affect the responses of others to an event, particularly if they share the same cultural background.
Question: An effective tragedy requires the arousal of empathy for those who strive for personal integrity and dignity
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True
False
Question: It is much easier to control audience focus in the theatre than it is on television or film.
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True
False
Question: “Exposition” relates that part of the action that occurs after the “crisis” or “climax”
Choices:
True
False
Question: A reader may re-read, reflect, and sustain several possible interpretations of a line, scene or entire play, but the playgoer experiences the action and characters more immediately and directly.
Choices:
True
False
Question: In the statement “A performs B for C” which of the following is the principle component of “A”?
Choices:
Producer
Designer
Actor
Audience
Question: Which BEST describes Melodrama as a dramatic form?
Choices:
A serious action that is resolved happily and affirms the power of good over evil
A serious action that raises significant issues about the nature of human existence
Complex characters with complex motivations and responses
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