Tests

will include 50 multiple-choice questions; three points each, using your own 8 x 11
scantrons and #2 pencils.

At the end of the test, there will be 5 extra-credit questions worth 2 points each over the film Les
Miserables. The film is accessible via mediamatrix.tamu.edu.

You will not be penalized for missing the extra-credit questions; the points are added directly to
your test grade.

THAR 281 FALL 2013 TEST THREE WORKSHEET STUDY GUIDE

1. Realistic plays often tackle subjects that are _______ and deal with _________.
(choose from the following list)
Hypocrisy Simple Symbolism
Moral Supernatural Taboo
Moralistic simplicity Symbolic

2. The Independent theatres wanted nothing to do with early realism, true or false?

3. One of Anton Chekhovs most famous works, __________, was a dismal failure in its first public
performance in Russia.
4. 6. There will be three questions over the textbook page covering the above-answered play.

7. Naturalist plays often focus on the sordid and seamy part of life, true or false?

8. Which is more aesthetically pleasing and more influential as a movement, Realism or Naturalism?

9. What type of realism heightens certain details while omitting others?

10. Realistic plays have been the dominant style of theatre in the twentieth century, true or false?

11. Realistic plays usually involve simple or complex characters?

12. Audiences immediately accepted realistic plays in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, true or
false?

13. Chekhov developed "tragicomedy," that characterizes much of modern drama, true or false?

Match the following statements to one of these modernist movements:
Symbolism Epic Theatre
Futurism Existentialism
Expressionism Theatre of the Absurd
Dada Poor Theatre
Surrealism

14. God does not exist
15. Idealized technology and war
16. Believed that stage elements such as lighting and scene changes should be visible to the audience.
17. Theatre stripped to the essentials
18. Includes plots where nothing seems to happen
19. Presentation of dramatic action through the eyes of the protagonist
 20. Attempted to present the unpresentable
21. Used dream imagery
22. Used different artistic mediums at once
23. Suggestive scenery and use of sound
24. Language as anarchy
25. Use of gestus
26. Acceptance of responsibility for our actions
27. Eyes reflect the soul trapped in a mechanized shell
28. Characters fail to communicate
29. A philosophy as well as drama
30. Human existence is nonsensical
31. Allows and encourages the audience to think without emotional manipulation
32. Realism cant encompass things beyond everyday existence
33. Included men and women in the movement
34. Influenced by the writing of Freud and Marx.

35. Postmodernism is an approach to drama that strives to achieve a correct interpretation of a
classical play through extensive research and strict adherence to only one style, true or false?

Match the following statements about performance art to one of these decades:
1970s
1980s
1990s

36. Emphasis on political messages
37. Emphasis on the body as art
38. Emphasis on choreography

39. Postmodernism is not just a theatrical condition, but how we lived and thought and created during
the 19th century; true or false?

40. Experimental theatre involves a group of like-minded individuals who often write their own text,
true or false?

THERE WILL BE 10 QUESTIONS FROM THE DOCUMENTARY BROADWAY, THE AMERICAN MUSICAL
episode 6, Putting it Together. The questions are from the sections about Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Sondheim (11 minutes from beginning to about 25min); Disney and Rent (31min-43:30min) and Wicked
(46:30 to 53:30.)