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Theatre, Brief, 12e (Cohen)
Chapter 2 What Is a Play?
1) What is a play?
- A) a story in dialogue form written in a book
- B) a single oral performance of a story
- C) an action framed and focused around a particular conflict, which gives the action significance
- D) performance on a stage using live actors and musical accompaniment
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recall the beneficial effects of plays.
Bloom’s: Remember
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2) The word “drama” comes from the Greek dran, which means
- A) to make.
- B) to play.
- C) to do.
- D) to dance.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recall the beneficial effects of plays.
Bloom’s: Remember
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3) In Greek tragedy, central characters
- A) undergo a change that leads to their demise due to a tragic flaw in their character.
- B) never interact with the lesser characters.
- C) always descend from the gods.
- D) always have the option of avoiding conflicts.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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4) The purging or cleansing of the audience’s pity and terror at the climax of a tragedy is called
- A) hamartia.
- B) exposition
- C) containment
- D) catharsis.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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5) Which of the following is true about the differences between tragedy and comedy?
- A) Tragedy typically deals with great people, whereas comedy deals with ordinary people.
- B) Tragedy leads to the audience feeling disgusted about going to the theatre at all.
- C) Tragedy is always about the Gods, whereas comedies are only about mortals.
- D) Tragedy is about soap-opera types of conflict, whereas comedy is usually about a new major social and political awareness.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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6) Which of the following is true of tragic heroes? (Select all that apply.)
- A) Tragic heroes have superhuman powers.
- B) Tragic heroes face huge odds.
- C) Tragic heroes are always flawed in some way.
- D) Tragic heroes are victims of their circumstances.
Answer: B, C
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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7) Why do comedies typically go out-of-date more quickly than tragedies?
- A) Comedies were historically written on parchment, whereas tragedies were inscribed on stone.
- B) Comedies used the common slang of the time, whereas tragedies are written in more refined language.
- C) Comedies are more topical and deal with ordinary life at the time they are written.
- D) Comedies utilize more stagecraft and precise timing than tragedies.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of comedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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8) The play Notes from the Field can be classified as
- A) a documentary drama.
- B) a melodrama.
- C) a history play.
- D) a musical.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Recognize why plays can fit into multiple genres.
Bloom’s: Understand
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9) Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is different than its classically tragic ancestors because
- A) it contains scenes of absurd humor.
- B) it does not contain Gods, but rather contemporary forces.
- C) Willy Loman was a rich bureaucrat.
- D) it has more than one major tragic character.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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10) The Greek term for the “carrier of the action” in a tragedy is
- A) antagonist.
- B) protagonist.
- C) catharsis.
- D) hamartia.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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11) A play that dramatizes the key events in the life of a historical figure, such as George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, is called
- A) a history play.
- B) tragicomedy.
- C) a farce.
- D) a burlesque.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Recognize why plays can fit into multiple genres.
Bloom’s: Understand
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12) Ultimately, the practice of dividing plays into genre is
- A) not helpful to an audience member in deciding which play to go see.
- B) of no interest to the production team of actors, designers, and producers.
- C) always subjective because each play is unique.
- D) observed only for high scholarly writings to be analyzed.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recognize why plays can fit into multiple genres.
Bloom’s: Understand
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13) Which dramatic genre purports to be serious but, in fact, deals with human issues on only the most superficial level, embellished with spectacular staging, flamboyant dialogue, and highly suspenseful and contrived plotting?
- A) documentary drama
- B) tragicomedy
- C) melodrama
- D) farce
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recognize why plays can fit into multiple genres.
Bloom’s: Understand
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14) Which dramatic genre offers a wild, hilarious treatment of a trivial theme, usually based on a stock component like identical twins, switched identities, lovers in closets, and might include full-stage chases, misheard instructions, various disrobings, discoveries, and disappearances?
- A) dark comedy
- B) melodrama
- C) farce
- D) tragicomedy
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of comedies.
Bloom’s: Remember
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15) A play’s components and its timeline are both elements of the play’s
- A) dramaturgy.
- B) plot.
- C) conventions.
- D) action.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Recall the two components of dramaturgy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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16) The six components of a play that Aristotle lists, in order of importance, are
- A) script, stage, actor, playwright, choral leader, and government support.
- B) plot, character, theme, diction, music, and spectacle.
- C) irony, pastoral, idyll, satire, drama, and humor.
- D) reversal, tragic flaw, recognition, catharsis, inciting incident, and subplots.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Identify the six components of drama.
Bloom’s: Remember
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17) What is the difference between plot and story?
- A) The terms are synonymous.
- B) Plot refers to the structure of events; story refers to a narrative of what happens in a play.
- C) A plot has a moral; a story has suspense.
- D) A plot can be turned into a play, but a story is usually too private to be performed publicly.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Recognize the elements that compose plot.
Bloom’s: Understand
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18) Which element of drama refers not only to the pronunciation of spoken dialogue but also to the literary nature of the play’s text, including its tone, imagery, articulation, and use of such literary forms as verse, rhyme, metaphor, jest, apostrophe, and epigram?
- A) episodic discourse
- B) theme
- C) diction
- D) alliteration
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Define the term “diction.”
Bloom’s: Remember
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19) Which element describes the play’s use of rhythm and sounds, either by way of instrumental composition or the orchestration of such noises as muffled drumbeats, gunshots, special effects, and vocal tones?
- A) sound notes
- B) syllabic counterpoint
- C) music
- D) orchestra
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recall the different ways music can be utilized in a play.
Bloom’s: Remember
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20) The visual aspect of the play, including the scenery, costumes, lighting, make-up, and the overall look of the stage, are included in the element known as
- A) allusion.
- B) intermezzo.
- C) cortina magica.
- D) spectacle.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Recall the visual elements associated with spectacle.
Bloom’s: Remember
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21) The unspoken agreements between the audience and the actor, which includes a whole set of traditional understandings surrounding the theatrical event, is called
- A) music.
- B) convention.
- C) theme.
- D) denouement
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Define “theatre convention.”
Bloom’s: Remember
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22) Background information, presented within the play, that the audience must possess in order to understand the action of the play is called
- A) recognition.
- B) exposition.
- C) denouement.
- D) paraphrase.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Define the term “exposition.”
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23) Which of the following offers a way that the playwright can present a play’s exposition?
- A) director’s notes
- B) a spoken prologue that directly provides information right before the main action
- C) a talk show during which the actor relays information to the viewing audience
- D) post show gossip
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Define the term “exposition.”
Bloom’s: Remember
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24) In play construction, the single action that initiates the major conflict of the play is called the
- A) exposition.
- B) inciting incident.
- C) characterization.
- D) denouement.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Recognize the importance of conflict in a play.
Bloom’s: Understand
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25) A play’s final scene, action, or lines that indicate the end of conflicts, and possibly even bring about resolution, is called the
- A) pathos.
- B) theme.
- C) anagnorisis.
- D) denouement.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Recognize the function of the denouement.
Bloom’s: Understand
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26) Genre means category or kind.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: List the qualities of a play that are used to classify it.
Bloom’s: Remember
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27) The central character in any type of drama is always called the tragic hero.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Define “character,” according to Aristotle.
Bloom’s: Remember
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28) A modern play that challenges Aristotle’s definition of tragedy because the lead character is a “low man” is Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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29) Aristotle’s list of six components of a drama is not really respected or used today.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Identify the six components of drama.
Bloom’s: Remember
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30) In a Greek play, the lead character, the protagonist, moves the action forward and is opposed by a figure called the antagonist.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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31) According to Aristotle, it is impossible to break down the elements that make tragedy effective.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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32) When an actor turns to speak directly to the audience, unheard by the other characters, it is known as an “aside.”
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Recall the theatrical conventions used in Western drama.
Bloom’s: Remember
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33) When actors “freeze” and the lighting dims, Western theatrical convention dictates that the audience understands time has stood still and the narrative has paused.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Recall the theatrical conventions used in Western drama.
Bloom’s: Remember
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34) Thetheme of The Bourgeois Gentleman is the foolishness of pretense.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Recognize the connection between “thought” and “theme.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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35) The audience is not a part of the definition of conventions of the theatre.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Define “theatre convention.”
Bloom’s: Remember
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36) Apply Aristotle’s elements of drama to a modern play with which you have read or seen. Do Aristotle’s elements make any difference to the play you watched or read? If so, how? Which ones and why?
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Identify the six components of drama.
Bloom’s: Remember
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37) Define “convention” and explain how conventions function in a play or theatrical performance with which you are familiar. Consider what misunderstandings or confusions might arise in someone unfamiliar with such conventions.
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Define “theatre convention.”
Bloom’s: Remember
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38) Discuss pre-play activities that are relevant today. List and discuss the kinds of activities that you have engaged in and how social media might play into this convention.
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Recognize the purpose of the “pre-play” period.
Bloom’s: Understand
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39) Consider you are wanting to impress a friend with your knowledge of theatre. Your friend thinks going to see a tragedy is a waste of time. Explain to them what a tragedy is and the benefits for an audience member to attend a tragedy. Give examples from famous tragedies such as Oedipus.
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Identify the main characteristics of tragedy.
Bloom’s: Remember
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40) The curtain call functions as an important convention in the drama. Explain its importance, especially in terms of the actor’s paradox. What are your expectations of a curtain call? Do you have any memorable ones you can recount?
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Recognize the importance of the post-play period to the theatre.
Bloom’s: Understand
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Theatre, Brief, 12e (Cohen)
Chapter 4 The Playwright
1) The term “playwright” refers to
- A) a person who has the “right” to write a play.
- B) a person whose knowledge of dramaturgy is so skilled that he or she is always right.
- C) a person who constructs and composes a play as a wheelwright makes a wheel.
- D) a person whose sense of dialogue is so adept that it verges on a musical talent.
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Recognize the role of the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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2) Writing plays differs from other literary forms in that
- A) playwrighting occurs only on computers.
- B) plays are written to be performed rather than simply read.
- C) playwrights avoid the use of literary devices such as allusion.
- D) playwrighting is a newer discipline.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Contrast playwriting with literary writing (i.e. novel writing).
Bloom’s: Understand
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3) The core element of every play is
- A) character.
- B) action.
- C) language.
- D) theme.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Contrast playwriting with literary writing (i.e. novel writing).
Bloom’s: Understand
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4) The playwright works with which two fundamental tools?
- A) the psychology of the characters and the viewpoint of the author
- B) the impact of the social environment and the audience’s sense of values
- C) the actors and the set designer
- D) dialogue and physical action
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Recognize the essential tools of playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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5) A play in which events are connected to each other in strict, chronological, cause-effect continuity, and in which dramatic experience attempts to convey a lifelike progression of experience through time, is classified as
- A) discontinuous in structure and linear in chronology.
- B) continuous in structure and nonlinear in chronology.
- C) not being an imaginative piece of art.
- D) continuous in structure and linear in chronology.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Recognize the essential tools of playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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6) ________ is the audience-imposed demand that requires a play’s actions to flow logically from its characters.
- A) Credibility
- B) Intrigue
- C) Continuity
- D) Pertinence
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Recognize the importance of credibility and intrigue in playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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7) Which of the following is the most accurate statement of the audience’s response to the drama?
- A) Surprise draws us into the world of the play; our ticket prices keeps us there.
- B) Intense focus draws us into the world of the play; intelligence keeps us there.
- C) Curiosity draws us into the world of the play; being a member of the audience keeps us there.
- D) Intrigue draws us into the world of the play; credibility keeps us there.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of credibility and intrigue in playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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8) ________ is the quality of a play that makes the audience curious to see what will happen next.
- A) Credibility
- B) Intrigue
- C) Gravity
- D) Pertinence
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Recognize the importance of credibility and intrigue in playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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9) To accomplish ________, playwrights must closely consider rhythm, meaning, focus, and power in order to achieve the maximum impact when lines are spoken.
- A) stageability
- B) credibility
- C) speakability
- D) flow
Answer:C
Learning Objective: Define speakability, stageability, and flow.
Bloom’s: Remember
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10) A ________ script is one in which dialogue and stage business are intrinsic to the nature of the play.
- A) credible
- B) flowing
- C) speakable
- D) stageable
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Define speakability, stageability, and flow.
Bloom’s: Remember
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11) A play that is continually saying something, doing something, and meaning something to the audience is said to have
- A) credibility.
- B) flow.
- C) stageability.
- D) speakability.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Define speakability, stageability, and flow.
Bloom’s: Remember
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12) In a play with ________, every detail strengthens our insight into the world of the play.
- A) gravity
- B) intrigue
- C) credibility
- D) richness
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Recognize the nature of dramatic “richness.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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13) A play in which every character possesses an independence of intention and expression, and whose motivation appears sensible in light of our general knowledge of psychology and human behavior, possesses
- A) gravity.
- B) depth of characterization.
- C) pertinence.
- D) stageability.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of character “depth.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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14) All of the following are signs of good characterization EXCEPT
- A) the character appears as a pawn in the playwright’s grand design and exists only to symbolize trivial ideas.
- B) the characters convey the impression that they believe in themselves and in the fundamental rightness of their cause even though other characters or the audience may disagree with that estimation.
- C) even though haunted by self-doubts, the character sustains a belief in himself or herself.
- D) the character conveys the complexities of real human beings.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of character “depth.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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15) A play that deals with an issue of serious and lasting significance in humanity’s spiritual or intellectual life beyond the mere attempt to imitate profundity is said to possess
- A) credibility.
- B) gravity.
- C) pertinence.
- D) stageability.
Answer: B
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of gravity and pertinence to the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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16) ________ describes the degree to which a play addresses both of-the-moment and timeless audience concerns.
- A) Gravity
- B) Intrigue
- C) Pertinence
- D) Flow
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Define the terms gravity and pertinence as they relate to playwriting.
Bloom’s: Remember
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17) The playwright’s skill at condensing a story that may span many days or years of chronological time into a theatrical time frame is called
- A) compression.
- B) stageability.
- C) intensity.
- D) gravity.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of compression, economy, and intensity to the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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18) Scenes of conflict are important because
- A) they make the dialogue dramatic and are highly actable.
- B) these scenes display the playwright’s virtuosity and highlight the director’s finesse.
- C) such scenes bracket theatrical pauses or breaks, which can accommodate commercials, should the script go to film.
- D) no conflict ever comes naturally.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of the playwright’s process.
Bloom’s: Understand
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19) A play’s ________ is the overall order of scenes.
- A) structure
- B) plot
- C) continuity
- D) flow
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Recognize the difference between structure and plot.
Bloom’s: Understand
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20) A linear plot proceeds by
- A) the point-to-point storytelling of events linked in chronological, cause-effect continuity.
- B) one episode jumping to another.
- C) one character’s passing a symbol or token to another.
- D) one image fading into another related image.
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of the playwright’s process.
Bloom’s: Understand
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21) Step one of a fundamental playwriting exercise is writing down
- A) imagined conversations between groups of people.
- B) excerpts from his/her personal diary.
- C) memorable dialogue from famous playwrights.
- D) overheard conversations.
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of the playwright’s process.
Bloom’s: Understand
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22) Which of the following playwrights made history as the first female Asian American playwright to have her work presented on Broadway?
- A) Annie Baker
- B) Suzan-Lori Parks
- C) Young Jean Lee
- D) Ayad Akhtar
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Identify the achievements of Young Jean Lee.
Bloom’s: Remember
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23) Which playwright gained national recognition in 2009 with Circle Mirror Transformation, a play that details acting exercises at a community theatre in a small town?
- A) Annie Baker
- B) Young Jean Lee
- C) Suzan-Lori Parks
- D) Tarell Alvin McCraney
Answer: A
Learning Objective: Identify the achievements of Annie Baker.
Bloom’s: Remember
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24) ________ is known for writing plays that integrate complex elements of black history such as Yoruban culture and explorations of the horrors of slavery into the text.
- A) Suzan-Lori Parks
- B) Annie Baker
- C) Ayad Akhtar
- D) Tarell Alvin McCraney
Answer: D
Learning Objective: Identify the achievements of Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Bloom’s: Remember
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25) ________ is the author of a number of plays that include their own internal logic, such as In the Blood and The America Play.
- A) Annie Baker
- B) Ayad Akhtar
- C) Suzan-Lori Parks
- D) Young Jean Lee
Answer: C
Learning Objective: Identify the achievements of Suzan-Lori Parks.
Bloom’s: Remember
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26) The audience’s demand for internal consistency in a play, in which the characters, the situation, and the theatrical context are combined to generate the action, creates credibility.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of credibility and intrigue in playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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27) Playwrights are always welcomed into the rehearsal hall.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Understand the role and importance of the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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28) The theatre does not need new playwrights that present new drama.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Understand the role and importance of the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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29) The quality of a play that describes the way the playwright creates a world in which every detail fortifies our insight into the play is called richness.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Understand the nature of dramatic “richness.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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30) A play that relates in some fashion to the current personal concerns of the audience is said to possess pertinence.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of gravity and pertinence to the playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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31) Speakability requires that spoken dialogue reflect the character’s personality, rather than just the author’s perspective.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Define speakability, stageability, and flow.
Bloom’s: Remember
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32) Richness in a play demands that the author have an excellent vocabulary, a gift for close observation, and significant attention to detail.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Recognize the nature of dramatic “richness.”
Bloom’s: Understand
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33) Plays that celebrate rely on happy endings and noble sentiments.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Recall the importance of celebration for writing a successful play.
Bloom’s: Remember
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34) The primary reward for a successful playwright is the opportunity to transition to writing for television.
Answer: FALSE
Learning Objective: Recognize the rewards of being a playwright.
Bloom’s: Understand
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35) Ayad Akhtar was the most produced playwright of the 2014–2015 American theatre season.
Answer: TRUE
Learning Objective: Identify the achievements of Ayad Akhtar.
Bloom’s: Remember
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36) Discuss the attributes of a good play script. Consider the elements of story or narrative, the element of played or performed text, and the practical requirements of a stage.
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Recognize the essential tools of playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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37) What can a playwright do to check the speakability of his or her lines?
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of speakability, stageability, and flow.
Bloom’s: Understand
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38) You are a brand new playwright. Explain how an overheard dialogue can be turned into an interesting scene or even an entire play. Use your imagination!
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of the playwright’s process.
Bloom’s: Understand
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39) To what extent is playwriting a literary activity?
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Understand the relation between playwriting’s literary and non-literary aspects.
Bloom’s: Understand
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40) Explain how credibility is created in a play and, perhaps using a play with which you are familiar as an example, how it is related, if at all, to your understanding of reality.
Answer: Answers will vary
Learning Objective: Understand the importance of credibility and intrigue in playwriting.
Bloom’s: Understand
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