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UNIT – I
1. Theatre refers to the actual __________of the play on the stage
a) Production
b) costume
c) Cast
d) crew
Answer: a)production
2. The word Theatre was derived from the Greek word_______
a) Thatre
b) theasthai
c) Thratre
d) thaethsai
Answer: b) theasthai
3. Drama refers to the ___________of a play
a) Characters
b) stage
c) printed script
d) actors
Answer: c) printed script
4. Which of these is an abstract entity?
a) Drama
b) Theatre
c) Actors
d) None of these
Answer: a)Drama
5. Origins of the Greek theatre lies with the followers of
a) Dionysus
b) Euphrates
c) Nile
d) Thespis
Answer: a) Dionysus
6. The origin of G reek theatre can be traced back to
a) 3rd century
b) 6th century
c) 5th century
d) 4th century
Answer: b) 6th century
7. Who introduced dialogue into theatre?
a) Thespis
b) Achyleus
c) Plato
d) Socrates
Answer: a) Thespis
8. ________ was the first actor in the Greek theatre
a) Dionysius
b) Archimedes
c) Zeus
d) Thespis
Answer: b) Thespis
9. According to Natya shatra theatre begins with
a) Bhrama
b) Bhudusha
c) Bharatha Muni
d) Vishnu
Answer: a) Bhrama
10. How long is one Hastha?
a) 16 Centimeters
b) 16 inches
c) 16 feet
d) 16 meters
Answer: b)16 Inches
11. Which book of natayashastra distinguishes 10 kind of play?
a) Book 15
b) Book 27
c) Book 3
d) Book 20
Answer: d) Book 20
12. _________ is the Sanskrit equivalent for Act
a) Anka
b) Bhana
c) Vithi
d) Nataka
Answer: a) Anka
13. Rasa can be translated into_________
a) Essence
b) Taste
c) Color
d) All the above
Answer: a) essence
14. Which of these are not related to the rasa Karunyam
a) Tragedy
b) Yama
c) White
d) Dove coloured
Answer: c) white
15. ________ wrote Sakunthala
a) Abhinavagupta
b) Ashvaghosha
c) Kalidasa
d) Shudraka
Answer: c) Kalidasa
16. Aristotle discussed the elements of theatre in ______
a) Poetics
b) Rheotric
c) Republic
d) On the sublime
Answer: a) Poetics
17. Which of this not described in Poetics?
a) Plot
b) Spectacle
c) Dialogue
d) Actors
Answer: d) Actors
18. _______ is the turning point of the story
a) Climax
b) Denouement
c) Anti- Climax
d) None of the above
Answer: a) climax
19. Props is the short for
a) Performance
b) Properties
c) Production
d) None of these
Answer: b) Properties
20. _________ translates into the plot
a) Vastu
b) Bhava
c) Kadha
d) Karuthu
Answer: a) Vastu
21. The Natayashastra can be considered as the fifth
a) Veda
b) Folio
c) Book
d) Option
Answer: a) Veda
22. The first play concerns itself with _________’s victory over the demons.
a) Indra
b) Vishnu
c) Siva
d) Man
Answer: a)Indra
23. According to Natayashatra theatre is _______ conceived and commissioned
a) Director
b) Devine
c) Producer
d) Patron
Answer: b) Devine
24. _____ is not one of the shapes of theatre for sanskrit drama
a) Square
b) Rectangle
c) Circle
d) Triangle
Answer: c) Circle
25. Which of these terms do not denote of the areas in the theatre?
a) Rengapitha
b) Rangashirsha
c) Rangapitha
d) Nepthya
Answer: a) Rengapitha
26. __________ refers to Backstage.
a) Utimasa
b) Nepthya
c) Rengashrisha
d) Nasurashrisha
Answer: b) Nepthya
27. Which of these is not a type of play ?
a) Dima
b) Bhansa
c) Vithi
d) Samavakara
Answer: b) Bhansa
28. Bhasa’s Urubhangam may be an example of ______
a) Dima
b) Vithi
c) Bhansa
d) Anka
Answer: d) Anka
29. ________plays only concern war over a woman
a) Dima
b) Samavakara
c) Ihamrga
d) Prakarna
Answer: c) Ihamrga
30. Theatre was created more specifically for
a) Literate
b) Illiterate
c) Scholars
d) None of these
Answer: b) Illiterate
UNIT – II
31. Looking right sideways indicates______
a) remembering sounds
b) imagining sounds
c) remembering names
d) imagining lies
Answer: b) imagining sounds
32. which of these is not a type of drama in ancient Greece
a) Tragedy
b) comedy
c) Satire
d) Tragi- Comedy
Answer: d) Tragi- Comedy
33. Characters speak not to
a) advance the plot
b) to have a conversation
c) to reveal character
d) to express sub-text
Answer: b) to have a conversation
34. Which of the following is not the possible meaning of widening eyes
a) Interest
b) Appeal
c) Tiredness
d) invitation
Answer: c) tiredness
35. ___________ is on of the nine rasas
a) Bibhatsam
b) Anka
c) Bhana
d) Vithi
Answer: a) Bibhatsam
36. ________ is not a sanskrit dramatist
a) Bhasa
b) Sufi
c) Shudraka
d) Kalidasa
Answer: b) Sufi
37. ___________is communication by movement or position, particularly facial expressions, gestures
a) Body language
b) Vocal Communication
c) Written Communication
d) All of the above
Answer: a) Body Language
38. Body language is communication not by
a) facial expressions
b) gestures
c) Postures
d) writing
Answer: d) writing
39. ___________ is an important part in Mime
a) Words
b) Sounds
c) Gestures
d) Costume
Answer: c) Gestures
40. Gestures in a mime cannot made by________
a) Eye
b) Ear
c) Mouth
d) Hand
Answer: b) ear
41. The possible meaning of looking right up is______
a) Lying
b) Telling the truth
c) Re- calling sounds
d) Imagining
Answer: a) Lying
42. The possible meaning of looking left up
a) Lying
b) Telling Truth
c) Recalling Sounds
d) Imagining
Answer: b) telling truth
43. Direct eye contact could mean_______
a) Lying
b) Honest
c) Fake Honesty
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above.
44. ______________ of the eyes means looking interested or surprised.
a) Widening
b) Closing
c) Blinking
d) winking
Answer: a) Widening
45. ___________ means attracted or desire
a) Constricted pupil
b) Dilated pupil
c) Constrained iris
d) Dilated pupil
Answer: b) Dilated pupil
46. _______ is a word less form of entertainment
a) Drama
b) play
c) Script
d) Mime
Answer: d) Mime
47. Which of these are not functions of a dialogue?
a) To move the plot
b) To have a conversation
c) To reveal the character
d) To reveal a sub-text
Answer: b) to have conversation
48. Dialogues should sound_________
a) Fake
b) Made up
c) Real
d) irrelavent
Answer: c) Real
49. The script writer should handle_______ for intonation of the dialogue to be understood by actors
a) Punctuation
b) Non-verbal language
c) Words
d) settings
Answer: a) Punctuation
50. _________ speaks volumes.
a) Noise
b) Words
c) Silence
d) Dialogue
Answer: c) Silence
51. The earliest Mime artist known to us is_________
a) Livius Andronicus
b) Andronicus Livius
c) Livius Andornicaius
d) Andronicus Livicus
Answer: a) Livius Andronicus
52. ____________ is considered to be the source of the modern mime
a) commedia de la art
b) comed dell’arte
c) commedia dell’arte
d) commadia dell’arte
Answer: b) commedia dell’arte
53. Which of shakespear’s play has a dumb show?
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Othello
d) Julius Ceasar
Answer: a) Hamlet
54. Development of the modern Mime can be traced back to________
a) Jecquas Copeau
b) Jack Copeau
c) Jacques Copeau
d) Jean Copeau
Answer: c) Jacques Copeau
55. Kishwar Naheed was born in_____
a) 1950
b) 1940
c) 1930
d) 1920
Answer: b) 1940
56. Carolyn Rodgers died in _____
a) June 2,2011
b) July 1,2000
c) March 4,2010
d) April 2,2010
Answer: d) April 2,2010
57. In Britain one of the most influential and enduring figures has been________
a) David Glass
b) Hugh Glass
c) David Class
d) Hugh Class
Answer: a) David Glass
58. ___________ is an art form that animates inanimate object.
a) Mime
b) Drama
c) Puppetry
d) Script
Answer: c) Puppetry
59. Which of these is not a form of Puppetry?
a) Rod
b) Glove
c) string
d) musical
Answer: d) Musical
60. Bommalattam is an art form in_________
a) Tamil Nadu
b) Orrisa
c) Jammu
d) none of these
Answer: a) Tamil Nadu
UNIT – III
61. ____________ is the art of designing moments for physical bodies
a) Dance
b) Choreography
c) Ballet
d) Jazz
Answer: b) Choreography
62. The word Choreography first appeared in American Dictionary in
a) 1930’s
b) 1940’s
c) 1950’s
d) 1960’s
Answer: c) 1950’s
63. Choreography is used to________
a) Convey a time lapse
b) An Emotion
c) To accompany the music
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above
64. _________ is covering of face for the sake of performance.
a) Masque
b) Mask
c) Mass
d) Massqura
Answer: b) Mask
65. Masks have an easy way of _________a familiar character
a) Transferring
b) Projecting
c) antiquary
d) Conveying
Answer: d) Conveying
66. Ancient Greek and roman Masks were related to the festival of___
a) Tiber
b) Euphrates
c) Dionysus
d) Diana
Answer: c) Dionysus
67. Masks were used to hide _________ actors playing female characters.
a) Male
b) Mail
c) Mael
d) Meal
Answer: a) Male
68. The unity of culture is the basis of _____
a) Heterogeneity
b) Homogenity
c) Hepotogenity
d) All of the above
Answer: b) Homogenity
69. __________ helped one actor take the role of several Characters
a) Mime
b) Dialogue
c) Masks
d) Gestuers
Answer: c) Masks
70. Masks were used to show_______
a) Characters
b) Emotions
c) Gods
d) all of these
Answer: d) All of these
71. ________ is a famous play of shakespeare using masks
a) All for love
b) All is well that ends well
c) Mid Summers Night’s Dream
d) Love’s Labour Lost
Answer: c) Mid Summers Night’s Dream
72. _________ is a famous character of Shakespeare that uses masks
a) Bottom
b) Puck
c) Top
d) Put
Answer: a) Bottom
73. The members are forbidden by an _____ social law to marry outside the group
a) Inexorable
b) inexplorable
c) Inexotic
d) none of these
Answer: a) inexorable
74. Stage setting is used to convey the ________ to the audience
a) Climax
b) Idea
c) Theme
d) Locale
Answer: d) Locale
75. Common Stock scenery did not include________
a) Curtains
b) Flats
c) Platforms
d) Constructions
Answer: d) Constructions
76. Stage Lighting includes the use of _________
a) Optics
b) Endography
c) Entomology
d) None of these
Answer: a) Optics
77. The superposition of endogamy and exogamy means the creation of _____.
a) Caste
b) tradition
c) Religion
d) culture
Answer: a) caste
78. Spotlight is used to ________ character on the stage
a) Focus
b) Highlight
c) Hide other charcters
d) all the above
Answer: d) All the above
79. ____________ is an Indian art form that uses mask
a) Kathakali
b) Mime
c) Ballet
d) None of these
Answer: a) Kathakali
80. _________ is the design of motion or movement.
a) Polygamy
b) Mime
c) Celibacy
d) Choreography
Answer: d) Choreography
81. ____________ is choreography involving a lot of people in public
a) Mob
b) Ballet
c) Flash Mob
d) None of these
Answer: c) Flash Mob
82. Choreography originated from the Greek word that means _____
a) Move
b) Waver
c) Exempting
d) Dance
Answer: d) Dance
83. Ballet is a form of________
a) Dance
b) Narrative
c) Mime
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above
84. Choreography is the_________ of dance.
a) Movement
b) Composition
c) Performance
d) none of these
Answer: b) Compositon
85. Scenography involves_______
a) Stage setting
b) Chorography
c) Chronograph
d) None of these
Answer: a) Stage setting
86. Setting of the play is the visual representation of the________
a) Author
b) Audience
c) Actors
d) Director
Answer: a) Author
87. Settings give a ________ representation of the stage
a) Visual
b) Auditory
c) Olfactory
d) None of these
Answer: a) Visual
88. Background music is used to establish________
a) Mood
b) Scene
c) Character
d) Reality
Answer: a) Mood
89. Music is one of the __________ of the theatre
a) Content
b) Elements
c) Compliments
d) None of these
Answer: b ) elements
90. Music is used to_________ in the theatre
a) Fill in between the dialogue
b) Entertain
c) Set the mood
d) All of these
Answer: d) All of these
UNIT – IV
91. Music helps the dramatist convey the ________ to the audience
a) Story
b) Emotion
c) Character
d) All the above
Answer: b) Emotion
92. Director is a person who_______ the play.
a) Acts
b) Sings
c) Orchestrates
d) Governs
Answer: c) orchestrates
93. Directors helps ________ the play
a) Cordinate
b) Ensure quality
c) Lead the members
d) All the above
Answer: d) all the above
94. A director must_______ the play
a) Write
b) Interpret
c) Act
d) All of these
Answer: b) interpret
95. ________ conducts music in the drama.
a) Musician
b) Conductor
c) Player
d) Instrument
Answer: b) Conductor
96. ________ is the form of music that was used in Greek plays
a) Elegy
b) Sonnet
c) Ode
d) Haiku
Answer: c) ode
97. What type of music is used along with Drama?
a) Incidental
b) Exponential
c) Differential
d) Integral
Answer: a) incidental
98. Music is a ___________ of sounds.
a) Cacophony
b) Utopia
c) Dystopia
d) Harmony
Answer: d) Harmony
99. In an attempt to revive Greek theatre_______ was started in Florence
a) Ballet
b) Epic
c) Opera
d) Satyr
Answer: c) Opera
100. Which of these music are not a part of Shakespeare’s theatre
a) Stage
b) Magic
c) Atmospheric
d) None of these
Answer: d) None of these
101. ____________ music introduces the important character.
a) Stage
b) Magic
c) Atmospheric
d) Character
Answer: c) Stage
102. The lullaby in Mid-Summer Nights Dream is________
a) Stage
b) Magic
c) Atmospheric
d) Character
Answer: b) Magic
103. _____________ reveals the mood of the character
a) Stage
b) Magic
c) Atmospheric
d) Character
Answer: c) Atmospheric
104. The music in “Where the bee sucks” in Tempest is_______ music
a) Stage
b) Magic
c) Atmospheric
d) Character
Answer: c) Atmospheric
105. Orchestra Pit in theatre is for the _________
a) Actors
b) Director
c) Musicians
d) Audience
Answer: c) Musicians
106. ___________ type of theatre gives importance to Music
a) Musical
b) Instrumental
c) Harmony
d) Orchestra
Answer: a) musical
107. Which of these is not a musical?
a) Le Miserabel
b) Sound of Music
c) High School
d) Rasin in the Sun
Answer: d) Rasin in the Sun
108. In a Musical ____________ are also in the form of songs
a) Dialogues
b) Stage setting
c) Character
d) Hyms
Answer: a) Dialogues
109. ________ does not need more than a single singer
a) Musical
b) Opera
c) Choir
d) None of the above
Answer: b) Opera
110. _________ conveys a story by means of enactment
a) Singing
b) Dancing
c) Acting
d) Music
Answer: c) Acting
111. An Actor adopts a _______ in a drama
a) Dialogue
b) Costume
c) Action
d) Character
Answer: d) Character
112. ___________ is the term Aristotle uses for enactment.
a) Mimesis
b) Diegesis
c) Memisis
d) Diegsis
Answer: a) Mimesis
113. ___________ is the term for narration used by Aristotle
a) Mimesis
b) Diegesis
c) Memisis
d) Diegsis
Answer: b) Diegesis
114. A professional Actor is one who is _________ to act.
a) Produces
b) Charges
c) Pays
d) acts
Answer: b) Charges
115. Thespian is derived from the first _______
a) Actor
b) Director
c) Dancer
d) Singer
Answer: a) Actor
116. ___________ is used as a transition between the outside world and theatre
a) Acting
b) Direction
c) Music
d) Writing
Answer: c) Music
117. Theatricical Music can be divided into
a) Five
b) Four
c) Three
d) Two
Answer: b) Four
118. Which of these do not belong to the types of theatrical music?
a) Framing Cues
b) Underscoring
c) Transitional
d) None of the Above
Answer: d) None of the Above
119. _________ the most famous theatre in New York
a) Broadway
b) Black Friars
c) Theatre
d) Madison Square
Answer: a) Broadway
120. Aristole’s Poetics is the considered the __________ School of thought
a) Classic
b) Romantic
c) Reformation
d) Renaissance
Answer: a) Classic
UNIT – V
121. __________ is the mind behind Poetics
a) Aristotle
b) Socrates
c) Zeus
d) Sophocles
Answer: a) Aristotle
122. Poetics is known for it’s ________ of drama
a) Script
b) Elements
c) Production
d) none of these
Answer: b) Elements
123. A drama must not be based on one of these
a) An idea
b) An incident
c) Music
d) A character
Answer: c)music
124. Which of these is not a part of the play?
a) Spectacle
b) Plot
c) Theme
d) Religion
Answer: d) Religion
125. The script is the ______ of the play
a) Written form
b) Acted form
c) Musical form
d) Painted form
Answer: a) Written Form
126. Which of these is not a genre of a drama?
a) Black comedy
b) Satire
c) Prosody
d) Parody
Answer: c) Prosody
127. Which of this is not a component of a play
a) Musical Comedy
b) Convention
c) Spectacle
d) Musical
Answer: a) Musical comedy
128. Documentary is based on and uses _______
a) Ballad
b) facts
c) History
d) None of these
Answer: b) facts
129. Michel Faryn’s Noises out is an example of
a) Melodrama
b) Comedy
c) Farce
d) Tragedy
Answer: c) Farce
130. Farce is a __________ treatment of a trivial theme
a) Hilarious
b) Melodramatic
c) Melancholic
d) Sanguine
Answer: a) hilarious
131. Opera is an example of a
a) Christian
b) Documentry
c) Melodrama
d) Musical
Answer: d) Musical
132. Which of these is a classification of play based duration?
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Full length
d) Documentary
Answer: c) full length
133. __________ is the first step of Script analysis
a) Discussing
b) Individual Reading
c) Making corrections
d) all the above
Answer: b) Individual Reading
134. Script Analysis is always _________
a) Subjective
b) Objective
c) Expository
d) Descriptive
Answer: a) Subjective
135. There are _______ number of fundamental steps of Script analysis according to Craig Mason
a) Four
b) Five
c) Six
d) Ten
Answer: b) Five
136. The most important work of a director and actor is ______ the script
a) Understanding
b) Reading
c) Rewriting
d) Simplifying
Answer: a) Understanding
137. Why should an actor do a Script Analysis?
a) Perform better
b) Sell more tickets
c) To please the audience
d) All the above
Answer: a) Perform better.
138. The First act is usually the _____
a) Resolution
b) Set up
c) Confrontation
d) None of these
Answer: b) Set up
139. The Second act is usually the _________
a) Confrontation
b) Resolution
c) None of these
d) Set up
Answer: a) Confrontation
140. The Third act is usually the _________
a) Set up
b) Confrontation
c) Resoultion
d) None of these
Answer: c) Resolution
141. Traditional Drama has _____ number of acts.
a) One
b) Three
c) Two
d) Four
Answer: b) Three
142. Analysis of ______ is necessary for the better performance of the actor
a) Script
b) Other actors
c) Stage
d) Vanmam
Answer: a) Script
143. _________ is not the key skill in Improvisation
a) Debating
b) Listening
c) Quick wit
d) Speaking
Answer: a) Debating
144. Improvisation usually does not results in _____
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Drama
d) Comedy and Drama
Answer: b) Tragedy
145. The actors interact with_______
a) Audience
b) Each other
c) With the script
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above.
146. Improvisation does not have a __________
a) Actors
b) Written script
c) Audience
d) None of these
Answer: b) written script
147. In improvisation the participants ________ what comes next.
a) Know
b) never know
c) Can guess
d) Sometimes know
Answer: b) Never know
148. Improvisation is a __________ process.
a) Spontaneous
b) Forced
c) Planned
d) Failed
Answer: a) spontaneous
149. The Actors are expected to _____ without much preparation
a) Speak
b) Act
c) React
d) All the above
Answer: d) All the above
150. Improvisation is done ______
a) On the spot
b) With preparation
c) With a script
d) Rehearsed
Answer: a) on the spot