Chapter 7 Quiz: Theater

The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, can justifiably called a rightful descendant of Chekhovian drama because

family relations in the play create obstacles to happiness that are all but impossible to surmount.

A theatrical performance may shatter the fourth-wall convention in any number of ways. Among the following, the best example of shattering the wall is

having an actor look directly at the audience.

Verisimilitude, as a theatrical technique, is closely associated with

realism.

One difference between the theatre of Greece and that of Rome is that, in Greece,

violence occurred off stage.

For Aristotle, the ideal tragic protagonist should be

virtuous but not totally innocent.

Women first appeared on stage, playing the roles of female characters,

during the neoclassical period.

In August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a former Negro Leagues baseball player who is never given the opportunity to play in the majors, the barrier that separates characters in the play from the racist external world is symbolized by

a fence.

When an actor, alone on stage, speaks his or her thoughts aloud to an audience, he or she is offering

a soliloquy.

"Tragedy is life seen close at hand; comedy is life seen from a distance." This observation is found in

an essay on comedy by Aristotle.

To appreciate theater, an audience must

be able to accept pretense as reality.