1.

A stage surrounded on all sides by the audience where actors make exists
and entrances through the aisles is named:
a) Arena stage
b) Thrust stage
c) Proscenium stage
2. A literary composition written in the form of a play (usually as a dramatic
poem), but intended or suited only for reading in a closet (a private study)
is:
a) Historical costume drama
b) Closet drama
c) Melodrama
3. Robertsons cup and Chaucer drama was a trend in the times of:
a) The nineteenth-century theatrical background
b) The naturalist movement
c) Realism in Britain
4.
a)
b)
c)

Which one of this plays is written by Chekhov:

The seagull
School
Caste

5. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray is written by:

a) Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)
b) Henry Arthur Jones (1851 1934)
c) George Bernard Shaw (1856 1950)
6. What opera lauched George Bernard Shaw as a dramatist:
a) Mrs. Warrens Profession
b) The Philanderer
c) Widowers Houses
7.
a)
b)
c)

One of the plays written by John Galsworthy is named:

Waste
The Forsyte Saga
The Marrying of Anne Leete

8.
a)
b)
c)

One of the represents of the kitchen sink drama is:

John Osborne (1929 1996)
D. H. Lawrence (1885 1930)
Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946)

9. Which play of Arnold Wesker explores the theme of self discovery:

a) Chicken Soup With Barley (1958)
b) Roots (1959)
c) Im Talking About Jerusalem (1960)
10.Which author lived between 1867-1933?

a) George Bernard Shaw

b) Arnold Wesker
c) John Galsworthy
11.The theathre of mood is characterized through:
a) Lack of focus on a leading character
b) On stage, actors must experience the action as it unfolds moment to
moment as if its happening for the "first time
c) Stage scenery: vivid background and environment
12.The Quintessence of Ibsenism is written by:
a) Arthur Wing Pinero
b) George Bernard Shaw
c) Harley Granville-Barker
13.What author was best known as a modernist novelist?
a) Arnold Wesker
b) D. H. Lawrence
c) Konstantin Stanislavsky
14.Which author lived between 1856 1950?
a) John Osborne
b) Arnold Wesker
c) George Bernard Shaw
15.In which authors work are present Shavian influences?
a) John Galsworthy
b) Henry Arthur Jones
c) Henrik Ibsen
16.Konstantin Stanislavsky lived between:
a) 1863 1938
b) 1860 1904
c) 1851 1934
17.Theatre had become a fashionable and respectable institution in:
a) The 19th century stage
b) The late 18th century stage
c) The late 19th century stage
18.What play has the main characters named Jimmy Porter, Alison Porter, Cliff
Lewis and Helena?
a) Chicken soup with Barley
b) Look back in anger
c)
Roots

19.A Phoenix Too Frequent is written by:

a) Christopher Fry

b) William Butler Yeats

c) Oscar Wilde
20.The first play written by Oscar Wilde is named:
a) The Duchess of Padua
b) The Picture of Dorian Gray
c) Vera: or, The Nihilists