This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rhyme scheme for this stanza is:It would be greatIf I could skateA figure eightBut my poor legs just won't keep straight A) ABAB. B) ABCD. C) AAAA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AAAA. 2. A solitary speech in which the character is speaking to himself or herself. A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 3. Question 4:What is the difference between dialogue and monologue? A) Dialogue is conversation between two or more characters. In a monologue, one character speaks alone. B) Dialogue is conversation between two or more characters. Monologues appear in only novels. C) Monologue is conversation between two characters. Dialogue is conversation between three or more characters. D) Dialogue is conversation btween only two characters. In monologue, one character speaks alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue is conversation between two or more characters. In a monologue, one character speaks alone. 4. Which of the following best describes a "theater" ? A) A story that is written to be acted out. B) Objects used in a play to bring it to life. C) The place where the play is performed. D) The words spoken by characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The place where the play is performed. 5. Words used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. A) Verbal Irony. B) Situtional Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal Irony. 6. It is a device in which an object, person or situation is given another meaning beyond its literal one. A) Symbolism. B) Improvisation. C) Audience. D) Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 7. What kind of humour is shown through physical actions? A) Puns. B) Slapstick. C) Satire. D) Parody. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slapstick. 8. "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of what traditional literature category? A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fairy Tales. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fable. 9. A play/script/drama that has a happy ending A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 10. This is a list of all the characters in a play, usually in the order of appearance. It is found at the beginning of a script A) Cast. B) Setting. C) Stage Directions. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast. 11. Instructions in the text of a play that indicate the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting. A) Playbill. B) Italics. C) Stage Directions. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage Directions. 12. It is the main idea or lesson to be learned from the play. A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Acting. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 13. A weakness within a character A) Aside. B) Tragic flaw. C) Couplet. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragic flaw. 14. Tension between the protagonist and antagonist is called: A) Conflict. B) Climax. C) Confident. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 15. The stage directions can give us clues about ....., or how something is said. They can also tell us what is happening on the stage. A) The script. B) The structure. C) The tone. D) The plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tone. 16. Which statement about stage directions is correct? A) You should only read the stage directions that are in parentheses. B) You should only read the stage directions that are italicized. C) You shouldn't read stage directions. D) Read ALL stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Read ALL stage directions. 17. Small, movable objects used to show the actor's actions are ..... A) Props. B) Scenes. C) Sets. D) Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Props. 18. An aside is when ..... A) The characters step off stage. B) A character speaks to themselves for a long time expressing private thoughts. C) A character speaks directly to the audience. D) A character talks to themselves on stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A character speaks directly to the audience. 19. What is the meaning of conflict? A) The most exciting part of the story. B) This is what the acts are broken up into. C) The struggle between opposite forces. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The struggle between opposite forces. 20. There are ..... types of main characters in a drama. A) Multiple. B) Two. C) Three. D) Several. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 21. Themes appear in A) Fiction. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 22. The audience is ..... A) An instruction written as part of the script of a play. B) A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance. C) Genre of stories intended for the theater. D) A person who tells a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance. 23. The lines the characters say narrator1:boy:girl: A) Speaking. B) Dialogue. C) Plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 24. Major division of a play A) Antagonist. B) Act. C) Burlesque. D) Bit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 25. Objects needed to perform the play A) Props. B) Theme. C) Script. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Props. 26. The group of people that are playing certain roles in a play is called the A) Audience. B) Speakers. C) Cast of characters. D) Writers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cast of characters. 27. Osborne wrote Look Back in Anger in 1956, which was produced at the ..... A) British Theater. B) Film Company. C) Indian Theater. D) Royal Court Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Royal Court Theater. 28. ..... is conversation between or among character. A) Props. B) Monologue. C) Dialogue. D) Scenes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 29. ..... are scrips written for television. A) Teleplays. B) Screenplays. C) Radio Plays. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Teleplays. 30. He list of all characters in the play or drama is called the A) Credits. B) Scenes. C) Cast of actors and actresses. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cast of characters. 31. What is a story told through dialogue that is intended to be performed A) Movie. B) T.v. show. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 32. What are two types of drama? A) Fiction and Nonfiction. B) Tragedy and Comedy. C) Tragedy and Staging. D) Comedy and Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy and Comedy. 33. A section of a play, like a chapter in a book A) Paragraph. B) Act. C) Stanza. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 34. The passage below is from The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. The play is about Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan. This scene takes place when Annie gets off the train and meets Kate, Helen's mother.Annie:I changed trains every time they stopped, the man who sold me that ticket ought to be tied to the tracks ..... you didn't bring Helen. I was hoping you would.Kate:No, she's home.Annie:You ..... live far from town, Mrs. Keller?Kate:Only a mile.Annie:Well. I suppose I can wait one more mile. But don't be surprised if I get out to push the horse!Based on the dialogue, which of the following is TRUE? A) Annie is not eager to meet Helen and start working. B) Kate brought Helen with her to the station. C) Annie's train ride was short and convenient. D) Annie is very impatient to meet Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Annie is very impatient to meet Helen. 35. A group of lines or verses in a poem is called ..... A) Poetry. B) Dialogue. C) Stanza. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 36. Which type of drama contains humor, mocks people and situations and ends happily, often with a marriage or big problem solved? A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Romance. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedy. 37. Term for a drama in which the audience is amused by watching the characters go from a seemingly hopeless, confused situation to a happy ending. A) Tragedy. B) Documentary. C) Comedy. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comedy. 38. Stage directions reveal key details, plot elements, and setting that are written in ..... or ..... A) Details or Hints. B) Parenthesis or Italics (Slanted). C) Emotions or Thoughts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parenthesis or Italics (Slanted). 39. ..... is the term used for the construction on stage that suggests the time and place of the action. A) Set. B) Props. C) Theater. D) Stage Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Set. 40. Is a speaker or several speakers who recite the prologue and explain to whom, what, when, or where the action occurs to the audience. A) Prologue. B) Chorus. C) Narrator. D) Solo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chorus. 41. The three genres of Shakespeare's plays are A) Tragedy, Comedy, & History. B) Tragedy, Comedy, & Poetry. C) History, Comedy, & Romance. D) History, Tragedy, & Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy, Comedy, & History. 42. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play and the point of greatest tension in the work is called ..... A) Tension. B) Climax. C) Flashback. D) Importance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 43. Tragedy is a play dealing with tragic events and having an ..... A) Unexpected situations. B) Unhappy ending. C) Anger. D) Disappointment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unhappy ending. 44. A fairytale can have all of the following parts EXCEPT ..... A) Magical setting, characters, and events. B) Talking animals. C) Realistic characters, events, and setting. D) Good vs. evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realistic characters, events, and setting. 45. The conversation between two characters is called- A) Dialogue. B) Stage direction. C) Plot. D) Cast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 46. Where something is set, or placed. A) Setting. B) Dialogue. C) Act. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 47. A long speech spoken by a character to himself or another character A) Monologue. B) Aside. C) Dialogue. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monologue. 48. The words that characters say are called ..... A) Dialogue. B) Drama. C) Scene. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 49. What is the definition of the term acts? A) The details about the characters and setting in a play. B) The information provided at the beginning of a play. C) The most exciting part of the play. D) The units of action that make up the entire play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The units of action that make up the entire play. 50. An example of a Fairy Tale is what? A) There's a boy in the Girls bathroom. B) Paul Bunyan. C) The Grasshopper and the Ants. D) Sleeping Beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sleeping Beauty. 51. Portrays characters more generously than satiric comedy; tone is not bitter, but humorous and pleasant; entertain more than instruct and usually end up in marriage. A) Medium Comedy. B) Marriage comedy. C) Love comedy. D) Romantic comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic comedy. 52. What is defined as a special kind of monologue; a speech by a character alone on stage, whose words reveal what he or she is thinking or feeling A) Soliloquy. B) Stage directions. C) Aside. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soliloquy. 53. I am the written "book" for the actors to follow. What am I? A) Fiction. B) Script. C) Drama. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Script. 54. What part of the play marks the change in the protagonist's journey A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 55. Choose the correct example of a similie. A) I am the timid daughter who can rage only on paper. B) We honor you. C) She rises against the sun like a skyscraper. D) I am a city child. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She rises against the sun like a skyscraper. 56. Small movable items that the actors use to make actions look real. A) Actors. B) Theatre. C) Props. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Props. 57. Who is the main character of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" ? A) Jimmy Porter. B) Helena. C) John. D) Cliff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jimmy Porter. 58. A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Language. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialect. 59. A speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion: A) Aside. B) Soliloquy. C) Monologue. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monologue. 60. What is the meaning of the term suspense? A) A feeling of unhappiness as a result of a character's actions. B) A feeling of embarrassment brought on by the rising action. C) A feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome; used to build interestand excitement. D) A feeling of gratitude between two or more characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A feeling of uncertainty as to the outcome; used to build interestand excitement. Next →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDrama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books