The Stage and the School

Chapter 6: Varieties of Drama

Select the letter that correctly completes the sentence or answers the question.


1.	What type of comedy is based on intellectual humor revealed through witty dialogue?
		A)	high comedy
		B)	low comedy
		C)	burlesque
		D)	caricature


2.	In the play Othello, Othello's destructive jealousy is a keen example of __________.
		A)	incongruity
		B)	allegory
		C)	hamartia
		D)	hubris


3.	Performance art is sometimes considered a form of __________.
		A)	melodrama
		B)	monodrama
		C)	high comedy
		D)	epic theater


4.	Which playwright is often considered the father of realism as well as of the modern drama?
		A)	Henrik Ibsen
		B)	Tom Stoppard
		C)	Molière
		D)	Bertolt Brecht


5.	Another name for representational theater is __________.
		A)	illusion of the first time
		B)	theater of involvement
		C)	theatricalism
		D)	fourth-wall theater


6.	A playwright of tragedy uses__________ to evoke the audience's feelings of pity and compassion for the tragic hero.
		A)	pathos
		B)	incongruity
		C)	melodrama
		D)	expressionism


7.	In which type of comedy might you find chase scenes, screen scenes, and asides?
		A)	satire
		B)	sentimental comedy
		C)	farce
		D)	caricature


8.	Which of the following is an example of theater of the absurd?
		A)	Brecht's Mother Courage
		B)	Beckett's Waiting for Godot
		C)	Ibsen's A Doll's House
		D)	Wilson's Einstein on the Beach


9.	After the downfall of a tragic character, the audience feels a sense of release, or __________.
		A)	pathos
		B)	hubris
		C)	hamartia
		D)	catharsis


10.	Which of the following is NOT a common cause of laughter?
		A)	relief
		B)	ambiguity
		C)	allegory
		D)	anticipation