"Test" #1 (Due by 11:55p on 10/20) Results for Dhruv Makwana

Score for this quiz:

90 out of 100
Submitted Oct 18 at 1:07pm
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Question 1

1. The quote below is important to understanding the theatre of everyday life and the importance of human role-
playing.

“All the world's a ______________,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their ___________ and their ________________;

And one man in his time plays many ____________”

 
play, exits, entrances, parts

 
stage, exits, entrances, roles

Correct!  
stage, exits, entrances, parts

 
stage, exits, entrances, roles

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Question 2

2. The quote "All the World's A Stage" was written by which playwright?

 
August Wilson

Correct!  
Shakespeare

 
Aristotle

 
Peter Brook

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Question 3

3. This Greek word is the artists (usually referring to the actor) process of imitation/expression/representation?

 
Kinesis

 
Catharis

 
Tiresias

Correct!  
Mimesis

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Question 4
 4. What Greek philosopher believed that the need for human role-playing and imitation was so strong that we had
to invent theatre to satisfy that need?

 
Socrates

Correct!  
Aristotle

 
Sophocles

 
Plato

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Question 5

5. The person who celebrates the past or invokes the gods by collaborating with both the deities and the
audience of believers in oral cultures is known as a/an.

Correct!  
Shaman

 
Kappa

 
Kaiju

 
Bishop

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Question 6

6. This African-American playwright from Pittsburgh is an important 20th Century storyteller whose works powerfully
dramatize the pleasures and perils of African-American life, experience, and history across the 20th century.  He is
famously know for and achieved international acclaim with a cycle of 10 plays, often called the Century Cycle or Pittsburgh
Cycle.

 
Idris Goodwin

 
LeRoi Jones

 
Langston Hughes

Correct!  
August Wilson

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Question 7

7. This Greek philosopher believed that imitation was dangerous that it could possibly create a societal conflict if used
nefariously?

 
Zeus

 
Dionysus

You Answered  
Aristotle

Correct Answer  
Plato

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Question 8

8. In the “Theatre of Everyday Life” section, this is a formal religious or social occasion, led by designated figure or figures

 
Mimesis

Correct!  
Ceremony

 
Ritual

 
Shaman

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Question 9

9. In the “Theatre of Everyday Life” section, this is the “acting out of a prescribed procedure

 
Mimesis

 
Shaman

Correct!  
Ritual

 
Ceremony

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Question 10

10. The Greek word that translates to “seeing place” or “viewing place” and is essential to the idea of what the definition of
theatre is?

 
Oedipus

 
Proskenion

 
Ampitheatre

Correct!  
Theatron

Quiz Score:
90 out of 100