Theater Quizzes 5-7

Which of the following IS/ARE true of Roman popular entertainments?

Re-creations of sea battles were on performed on lakes and Mime, like the festival theater, prohibited female performers

Which of the following is NOT true of Kabuki?

To facilitate closer contact with the audience, the hamamichi runway has been removed in modern Kabuki

Why is a pine tree painted onto the upstage wall of the Noh stage?

To remind the audience that the play takes place in the world of the spiritsrue

According to the stage directions, what most accurately describes Togashi and Benkei's state of awareness at the end of the play?

Togashi and Benkei both know what the other knows, but neither can directly acknowledge it

A Source Book in Theatrical History is mentioned in the lecture as an example of traditional Western bias.

True

According to the introduction, one remarkable aspect of Lysistrata is that is doesn't try to shock the audience into a revulsion for the carnage of war.

True

Although there have been some attempts to modernize Kabuki for contemporary audiences, Kabuki has proven relatively resistant to change.

True

Comedy is sometimes called the "angry art" because even though we, the audience, are meant to laugh, the artist is upset about some inconsistency or dishonesty in the world and is lashing out with humor.

True

In Kanjinchō, Both Benkei and Togahsi are caught between giri (obligation) and ninja (human feelings).

True

In contrast to Noh, Kabuki was a commercial theater oriented toward Japan's rising merchant class.

True

Kabuki was heavily regulated by the government rather than being banned outright.

True

Lysistrata is regarded as one of Aristophanes' more realistic plays.

True

Many experimental, or Avant-garde, theater artists in the West are drawn to the kind of "total theatre" characteristic of Asian theater.

True

Modern historians believe that the fall of the Roman empire happened more gradually and less conspicuously than traditionally thought.

True

Noh theater grew out of entertainments originally performed at temples during religious festivals.

True

Noh was developed as an entertainment form for Japan's military upper class, or samurai.

True

One major difference between Seneca's and Sophocles' Oedipus plays is that in Seneca's version, Oedipus starts off in a higher state of self-awareness than in Sophocles' version.

True

One of the main points the lecture makes about "The Waco Horror" is that it reflected widely held cultural attitudes at that time.

True

Physical differences between Roman and Greek theaters speak in part to the reduced role of the chorus in Roman drama.

True

Pompey's theater included a temple to Venus to convince city officials the theater wouldn't corrupt public morals.

True

Roman playwrights were imitators of Greek drama more than dramatic innovators.

True

Roman theaters were in essence more grandoise versions of earlier Greek theaters.

True

Seneca's plays are often now dismissed as melodrama when compared to the earlier Greek tragedies.

True

Terence wrote for a more educated, upper class audience than Plautus.

True

The "komos" in Old Comedy was that part of the play in which the conflicting parties celebrated their newfound unity.

True

The Athenian Commissioner humiliates Lysistrata by forcing her dress up as a man.

True

The Pont du Gard aqueduct speaks to the ability of the ancient Romans to master complex engineering feats.

True

The chorus in this play never engages in direct dialogue with the main characters.

True

The clip from Cop Rock is included in the lecture because its relevant to Western attitudes about music and drama.

True

The clip from Meet the Parents is much closer to Greek New Comedy than Old Comedy.

True

The play ends as it begins, with a few minutes of quiet drum and flute music played by the musicians off stage.

True

The postcard of "The Waco Horror" celebrates the event as a form of popular entertainment.

True

The process of spreading Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world is referred to as "Hellenization."

True

The three main roles in this play are based on traditional Noh characters.

True

The video of the costumer explaining how the phallus works is included in the lecture in part because of the contrast between the sexual nature of the object and the detached way she talks about.

True

Under the Roman Empire, the senate more or less lost its independence and basically affirmed whatever the emperor desired.

True

With what does the Chorus of Women fight the Chorus of Old Men?

Water

What do the women sacrifice for their oath?

Wine

Which of these problems does Lysistrata have to deal with once the women have seized the Acropolis?

Women sneaking away to be with their husbands

What does the blue oi box strapped to Yoshitsune's back actually contain?

Yoshitsune's armor

With what physical condition is Cinesias afflicted when he comes to meet Myrrhine?

a large erection

he English title of Kanjinchō refers to:

a scroll Benkei reads that commands true believers to contribute to the building of a new temple

At the end of a day of tragedies at the City Dionysia, the author presented a satyr play. This was

a short comic spoof of a tragedy

The clip from Weaponology is included to

suggest that, just like Romans, we, too, celebrate warfare

What does Demea suggest the two families do to bring them closer together at the end of the play?

tear down the garden wall between their houses

Comedy is referred to as a "drama of reconciliation" because

the "warring parties" in the conflict end up sorting out their problems

Where does Syrus trick Demea into thinking Ctesipho has gone?

the family farm in the country

According to Robert McKee, modern romantic comedies are out to "attack"

the rituals of courtship

At the beginning of the play, Lysistrata is complaining to Calonice about

the women not coming to the meeting she has called

The purpose of the mie is

to allow the audience to see the inner emotional life of the character

Aeschinus abducts Bacchis

to giver her to Ctesipho, who's in love with her

New comedy was based more on the struggles of the typical Greek family than old comedy

true

In her debate with the Magistrate, Lysistrata compares running the state to

working with yarn and thread

Unlike Old Comedy, New comedy rejected stock, easily recogniziable characters in favor of unique, individual characterizations

False

Unlike many Kabuki plays, Kanjinchō doesn't really include characters in the aragoto or wagato style.

False

Yoshizawa Ayame argued that it was a sin against traditional Japanese values for male actors to play female roles.

False

The clip from When Harry Met Sally is included in the lecture because it demonstrates Billy Crystal's improvisation skills.

Flase

Benkei's exit is called a ______________ roppo.

Flying

Which of the following does Demea suggest Mico should do at the end of the play?

Give land to Hegio and Marry Sostrata

In the first 2:00 of the George Carlin clip, which religion does he attack as being the most full of "bullshit"?

He doesn't single one religion out

At one point the stage directions say that Benkei "roars with laughter." Why?

He knocks Togashi's soldiers to floor

What does the guy with the clapper do in the Fool Moon clip that freaks out clown David Shiner?

He scratches his "swimsuit area"

What trick does Micio play on Aeschinus?

He tells him the girl he loves has been married off to someone else

What happened to Lenny Bruce after a comedy performance in San Francisco in October of 1961?

He was arrested

Which of the following is NOT true of Plautus?

He was originally a slave from North America

Which of the following is NOT true of Terence's comedies?

His plays contained lots of boisterous farce and physical comedy

Which of the following is NOT a point made in the Female Power and Democracy Video?

Intentionally or not, Lysistrata end up promoting degrading stereotypes of both men and women

Sostrata is distraught because

Aeschinus has abandoned Pamphila for the music girl

By the end of the story, the major lesson that Demea learns is that

Being generous wins you friends and the love of your family

Who was once known as "The Wandering Priest of Santo"?

Beneki

Which of the following is NOT true of Greek Old comedy

There was no chorus

Yoshitsune's ___________________ has issued orders that he is to be apprehended.

Brother

In this play, Terence uses the prologue to

pay tribute to the sources that inspired his play and scold his critics

How many classical performance styles of Kabuki are there?

3

According to the play introduction, Brothers can best be seen as attack on the institution of slavery, which Terence bitterly opposed.

False

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church praised acting as an ennobling occupation, in contrast to how it was seen during the days of the Republic.

False

Although Kabuki started from popular dance forms, its popularity led its being taken over by the Shinto and Buddhist temples for religious purposes.

False

Bando Tamasaburo V performs a wild, violent, ecstatic dance characteristic of the onnagata roles in Kabuki.

False

Because Asian theater retains its religious and ceremonial roots, there is typically very little interaction between audience and performer.

False

Benkei dances the dance of the winding stream to celebrate the new-found harmony between Togashi and himself.

False

Bunraku is the largest children's puppet theater not just in Asia but in the world.

False

Due to its simplicity and crudeness, Plautine comedy was largely forgotten until the twentieth century.

False

In the Monty Python Life of Brian clip, one of the main points Reg makes is that the Romans have abused the Christians terribly.

False

In the excerpt from Sotoba Komachi, the Second Priest confesses to Komachi he has strong sexual urges for her.

False

In the first edition of Living Theatre, the authors broke with tradition by declaring that the main portion of the book would deal with non-Western theater.

False

Like ancient Greek theater, we know very little about the origins of Noh or how it developed.

False

Lysistrata takes a Spartan as a husband at the end of the story, thus solidifying the peace between the two city-states.

False

Lysistrata teases Lampito for looking so scrawny and weak.

False

Norman Cantor's main point is that modern ruling elites reject the aristocratic decadence of the Roman ruling class as harmful to society.

False

Perhaps influenced by Lysistrata, Sostrata and Pamphila decide to deny sex to the men as a way of asserting their power as women.

False

Roman comedy like Brothers is based on the Greek Old Comedy of Aristophanes.

False

Steven Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondent's dinner differs from Greek Old Comedy in that most of his humor is based on timeless observations of human nature rather than topical references.

False

Terence employed the double plot device so that his plays could contain serious as well as comic elements.

False

The "happy idea" of a Greek comedy comes at the end of the play, when things turn out the way the audience hopes they will.

False

The Chorus of Women casts a spell on the Chorus of Old Men, turning them into frogs and gnats.

False

The Circus Maximus reflected Roman interest in small, intimate performance spaces.

False

The Noh stage is highly adaptable, and changes dimensions to meet the specific configuration of each particular theater building.

False

The clip from Team America is included primarily to discuss the age-old use of puppets in comedy, going back to the ancient Greeks.

False

The parabasis was the scene in Old Comedy when the leading characters had their final showdown

False

The photo of Clint Eastwood is included in the lecture because he embodies the Buddhist ideal of restrained elegance.

False

The point of Noh theater was to excite crude and violent passions in the viewer so he could liberate himself from inhibition and restraint.

False

The structure of Greek Old Comedy was fairly unregulated and informal; this is one of the main things that distinguished it from tragedy.

False

The utter inefficiency of the Roman legion army was one of the main reasons the empire fell.

False

To convince the other women to join her, Lysistrata argues that she is the horniest of all the women in Athens, and if she can abstain from sex, they can, too.

False

Togashi burns with personal hatred for Benkei, and privately swears to revenge himself on Benkei for the humiliation Benkei has caused him to suffer.

False

Traditional Asian theater borrowed the "climactic" form of drama from the ancient Greeks, with its emphasis on exciting plot events and obvious reversals and recognition scenes.

False

Aeschunis has raped

Pamphila

In the scuffle outside Micio's house at the beginning of the play, what does Parmeno do?

Punches Sannio

After learning of Aeschinus' behavior at the beginning of the play, Micio

Tells Demea what Aeschinus did wasn't really a crime

Which of the following was Aristophanes most likely "attacking" in Lysistrata?

The Peloponnesian War

With what question does Togashi finally confound Benkei, forcing Benkei to launch into a "brilliant improvisation of Buddhist jargon'"?

The meaning of the Shingon Prayer

Hegio argues that the richer and more powerful you are,

The more you are obligated by what is just and right

According to the play's introduction, Kanjinchō is reminiscent of

ancient comedy

To protect his master when Togashi becomes suspicious about Yoshitsune's identity, Benkei

beats Yoshitsune about the shoulders with his staff

In Okuni's time, the term Kabuki meant

bizarre

The Chorus of Old Men have come to the Acropolis to

burn down the gates

The clip from There's Something About Mary is included in the lecture to show that

comedy is very much a product of its time and place

When Yoshitune first comes upon the barrier, his soldiers want to

fight their way through the barrier

The story of Romulus and Remus

is no stranger than many origination stories