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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who is the Greek god of theater?
Hermes
Dionysus
Apollo
Odin
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does the word "theater" mean in Ancient Greek?
The Seating Place
The Playing Place
The Drama Place
The Seeing Place
- 3. Multiple Choice
To be a "theater," a theater must have what?
nothing and anything
a stage
a roof
4 walls
- 4. Multiple Choice
A familiar definition of theater is that ____.
"it was written to be performed"
"It has words"
"it has one actor and one audience"
"it is dramatic"
- 5. Multiple Choice
Fill in the blanks: Theater is a deliberate performance, created by live actors for a __________. typically making use of scripted language.
playwright
king or queen
live audience
television show
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is a shibboleth?
a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
a single television production featuring well-known performers and characterized by elaborate sets, costumes, staging, etc.
an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound,
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which is the more common spelling outside the United States?
theater
theatre
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which word means "mediating between the natural and the supernatural, serving to enact or re-enact significant events the natural or supernatural world?"
ribald
rites
rivals
ritual
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of these famous men help contribute to the beginning understanding of ritual theater?
James Blunt
James Cromwell
James Frazer
James Franco
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which word means that the idea involves a distinctly European idea of the world instead of a more worldly view of other cultures.
epcot-centric
euro-centric
western centric
Ukian
- 11. Multiple Choice
The idea that everything is just going to get better and better all the time is?
pessimism
negativism
positivism
optimism
- 12. Multiple Choice
The idea that myths and therefore theater were designed to explain some part of the world at large is called...
functionalism
hedionism
nihilism
fractionism
- 13. Multiple Choice
Theater can be seen as a way of explaining ____.
entertainment
religion
gravity
ourselves
- 14. Multiple Choice
What does mimetic impulse mean?
Humans must become mimes
Humans must mimic to learn
Humans are attracted to other humans
Humans micromanage each other.
- 15. Multiple Choice
According to Shelly, the highest purpose of drama/theater is to teach the human ____.
brain
experience
heart
relationship
- 16. Multiple Choice
Bonus Question: What Broadway show did the presenter NOT mention ???
Hamilton
Dear Evan Hanson
West Side Story
Cats
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