Chapter 11 Quiz Munise

Who wrote Lysistrata?

Aristophanes

The choregus is the lead actor in a Greek drama.

False

A ________ dramatizes a series of biblical events.

Mystery Play

Which of the following added a second actor to the play, starting drama as we now know it?

Aeschylus

Who is considered the first important Greek dramatist?

Aeschylus

Who wrote Oresteia?

Aeschylus

Who wrote Old Comedy, which made fun of social, political, or cultural conditions?

Aristophanes

Of the following, who is considered the most modern?

Euripedes

Which of the following demonstrated a skeptical attitude toward the gods?

Euripedes

Which of the following was considered to be most rebellious?

Euripedes

Which of the following is noted for his sympathetic portrayal of female characters?

Euripides

Comedies written by Plautus were quite similar to the Old Comedy written by Aristophanes.

False

Old Comedy dealt with romantic and domestic problems.

False

The Golden Age of Greece took place in the second century A.D.

False

The Greek amphitheatre is the first example of a proscenium theatre space.

False

The first significant dramatic criticism, The Poetics, was written by Horace.

False

The god Dionysus, to whom the Greek dramatic festivals were dedicated, was the god of war, death, and chastity.

False

Thespis is considered the first playwright.

False

He states in Ars Poetica that drama should both teach a lesson and entertain.

Horace

Which of the following is the author of Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)?

Horace

________ uses religious characters and religious themes to teach a lesson.

Morality play

A ________ dramatizes the lives of saints.

Mystery play

Who wrote The Menaechmi?

Platapus

Although ________ used a chorus in his plays, it did not play an integral part.

Seneca

Whose tragedies were similar to those of the Greeks, except that they were considerably more violent?

Seneca

Which of the following added a third actor to the play?

Sophacles

The comic playwright whose style is more literary and less exaggerated than that of the other Roman comic playwrights is

Terence

Despite the popularity of medieval religious drama, secular theatre and drama also existed in the Middle Ages.

True

The speeches of the Greek chorus were sung and danced

True

The three great Greek tragic playwrights are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

True