Survey of Theater-Exam #1 CORRECT

false

Greek New Comedy deals with kings and queens

a 3/4 thrust theatre in which the audience sat on 3 sides of the stage space

Greek Theatre buildings were:

true

Greek comedy developed later than Greek tragedy

true

Greek plays of the 5th century B.C. were musicals, they were predominately sung by the actors

true

Greek theatre were purposely open to nature and the Gods, while Roman theatre were enclosed and controlling

true

Greeks of the 5th Century B.C. felt music should have an "ethical" content

Competitor

"Agon" in protagonist and antagonist translated to:

Does

"Character" is primarily revealed by what a character:

true

"Discovery" is a common device for adding compilation to the plot of a play

false

"cause to effect" storytelling is the least common form of storytelling

Old Comedy

Aristophanes wrote:

false

Aristotle claims in the Poetics that Greek drama grew out of the ancient hunting rituals

true

Aristotle studied with Plato

false

Aristotle studied with socrates

Biologist

Aristotle was trained as a:

true

As discussed in class, comedy can be dangerous if we push humor past that which we own (our own stereotypes)

true

Athens was a walled city during the 5th Century B.C.

true

Classic Greek tragedy focuses primarily on moral and ethical dimensions of character

true

Comedy was always considered inferior to tragedy at the Great City Dionysia Festival in Athens

true

Deus ex machina when used today infers a contrived ending to a story or play

false

Dionysus is the son of Poseidon

What events happen and particularly how and why those events happen in a play

Dramatic Action as discussed in class is:

false

During the Hellenistic Period of Alexander, plays were never performed at other civic and religious occasions beside festivals for Dionysus

true

Generally, the "major dramatic question" in a play or story is answered in the "climax and resolution"

true

Lysistrata which depicts the women of Athens and Sparta going on a sex strike was written by Aristophanes

false

Masks were never worn in comedies during the competition at the City Dionysia

false

Menander wrote Old Greek Comedy

true

New Comedy is lighter in tone and subject matter than Old Comedy

Hubris/excessive pride

Oedipus' tragic flaw in Oedipus Rex is his:

Plot

Of Aristotle's Six Elements of Dramatic Action, which does Aristotle list as the first and most important?

Spectacle

Of Aristotle's Six Elements of Dramatic Action, which does Aristotle list as the last element?

Ideas/Thought

Of Aristotle's six elements of Dramatic Action, which does Aristotle list as the third most important element?

Euripides

Of the three great Greek tragedians of the 5th century B.C., who is the youngest?

Aeschylus

Of the three great greek tragedians of the 5th century B.C., who is the oldest?

Tragedy

Of which genre/type of play is Aristotle writing when he says the action of a play should be "serious and possess a certain magnitude"?

true

Phalluses were worn in Greek Comedy

true

Scholars think Aristotle's Poetics are lecture notes

false

The Clouds is written by Menander

5th century B.C.

The Golden Age of Athens was in what century?

false

The Greeks allowed for violent action on stage as a teaching tool

false

The Greeks were the first to celebrate and hold holy the Sabbath

false

The Grouch by Menander was found by Monks in the 9th Century

false

The Lenaia festival of ancient Athens was exclusively for tragedies

true

The Lenaia festival of ancient Athens was held in January

false

The New Comedy of Menander was severely critical of the Athenian government's role in the Peloponnesian war

Comedy

The Rural Dionysia was created for what genre of play?

false

The Rural Dionysia was performed in the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens

a union of theatre artists formed to protect and promote theatre during the greek classical period

The artists of Dionysus were:

true

The chorus of Sophocles consisted of 15 members that could be divided into two semi-horses of 7 plus a choral leader

true

The classic tragic hero is flawed

Thespis

The first person who is credited with being the first playwright and actor was:

true

The first tragedies performed at the Festival of Dionysus had one actor and a chorus

false

The name of the columned building at the top of the large hill int eh picture below is the Acropolis

The Cyclops by Euripides

The only Satyr play we have is:

Sophocles

The playwright ________ became identifies with the following (1) added a third actor; (2) raised chorus number to 15; (3) tight plot construction

true

The stat/city paid the actors in the competitions at the City Dionysian Competition

false

The theatre of Dionysus was outside the city limits of Athens

false

Tragedies by three different authors were presented in a single day at the City Dionysian Competition

true

Western audiences, to a great degree, have been brought up watching Aristotelian story telling

Sparta

What city/state was the leader of the Peloponnesian League opposing Athens during the Peloponnesian war?

an ecstatic hymn

What is a "dithyramb"?

God by Machine

What is the literal translation of deus ex machina?

Peter Pan

What play is being performed in the Johnny Depp film clip we watched in class?

The Clouds

What play was partially responsible for leading to Socrates conviction and execution in Athens?

Descriptive

What type of criticism is Aristotle's Poetics?

false

When Thespis was presenting his plays at the Theatre of Dionysus, the theatre had stone seating, architectural detail and sat close to 30,000 spectators

after three tragedies by a single author were performed

When was a satyr play performed during the Greek Dionysian Festival?

Wine, Spring, Fertility, and elemental passions

Which best answers the question: Dionysus is the god of _______

Aeschylus

Who increased the number of actors in Greek tragedy from one to two?

Sophocles

Who increased the number of actors in Greek tragedy from two to three?

Aristotle

Who was Alexander the Great's tutor?

Choregus

Who was the producer or money guy for Greek tragic plays?

false

Women could act in the Greek plays on special occasions

true

plays during the Golden Age of Greece were performed in competition

skene

In the Drawing of the Theatre of Dionysus, "A" is the:

Orchestra

In the Drawing of the Theatre of Dionysus, "B" is the:

Theatron

In the Drawing of the Theatre of Dionysus, "C" is the:

Beginning

In what part of the play do we find the "point of attack"?

End

In what part of the play do we find the "resolution"?

Middle

In what part of the play do we typically find "complication"?

Beginning

In what part of the play does the "exposition" occur?

534 B.C.

In what year did Thespis win the first recognized contest for Tragedy in the City of Dionysia?

A scenic device

A periaktoi in Greek theatre was a:

false

A satyr play is serious and possesses magnitude

true

According to Aristotle, ideally, "thought" or "ideas" are inferred within the action rather than stated out front

3

How many actors (not including the chorus) were used in the tragedy of Sophocles?

5

How many ballots were counted to select the winner of the Great City Dionysia Festival?

5

How many comic playwrights competed in the competition at the City Dionysia?

10

How many judges were there for the Great City Dionysia Festival?

3

How many playwrights were selected to present tragedies at the City Dionysia?

Lot

How was the leading actor assigned to a playwright during the City of Dionysia competitions?

by lot

How were lead actors and playwrights paired during the competition at the Dionysian Festivals during the Golden Age of the theatre in Greece?

false

In Aristotelean structure, the "inciting incident" occurs towards the end of the play

Pity and Fear

In Aristotle's description of how tragedy works, he says good tragedies arouse which two emotions?

true

In Greek tragedy, a God, fate, or moral power independent of human kind usually effects the outcome as much or more than the human characters

a choral passage directed at the audience dealing with contemporary people and issues

The "parabasis" in Greek Old Comedy is:

Aristotle

The 'Poetics', the first significant work of dramatic criticism, was written by:

Claimed he had a weak voice

Sophocles stopped acting in his plays because:

false

the "painting about red" example in class was an example of a work of art that is complete and self contained

false

the Theatre of Dionysus was built during the Roman occupation of Athens