This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the person who tells the story in a play? A) Author. B) Character. C) Speaker. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrator. 2. Read the following passage from the end of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.Mama:Yeah ..... they something all right, my children ..... Ruth:Yeah ..... they're something. Let's go, Lena ..... Walter:Y'all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!Mama:All right, honey ..... go on down. I be down directly.RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time.What do you learn from the stage directions in this passage that you DON'T learn from the dialogue? A) Mama wants to hide her emotions as she leaves her apartment. B) Walter wants Mama and Ruth to hurry up. C) Ruth is trying to get Mama out the door. D) Mama is very proud of her children but doesn't want to spoil them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mama wants to hide her emotions as she leaves her apartment. 3. In drama, who is the person who provides the audience with information about what is happening in the play? A) Playwright. B) Narrator. C) Script. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 4. Person, animal, or thing in the story A) Cast. B) Director. C) Actor. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Character. 5. What is a common way for a comedy to end? A) Happily-ever-after. B) In a wedding because it wraps up a happy ending with a comment on the possibility of a new society. C) In a conflict resolution and a happy ending. D) With laughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a wedding because it wraps up a happy ending with a comment on the possibility of a new society. 6. Romeo and Juliet is considered a: A) Comedy. B) History. C) Tragedy. D) REALLY EXCITING PLAY!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 7. It is the place and time where and when an event happens. A) Plot. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 8. Sets of bracketed information that tell what the stage looks like and how the characters should move and speak A) Script. B) Stage directions. C) Set. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage directions. 9. Playwright's comments that provide information about the dialogue, setting, props, costumes, lighting, sound effects, and action of a play A) Staging. B) Ensemble. C) Choreography. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Staging. 10. When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know A) Monologue. B) Dramatic irony. C) Scene. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 11. A comment made to the audience or to another character which other characters on stage supposedly don't hear A) Aside. B) Subtext. C) Oxymoron. D) Low humor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 12. A ..... are the actors in a drama. A) Conflict. B) Setting. C) Cast of characters. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cast of characters. 13. These objects are used to bring the drama to life. What am I? A) Props. B) Dialogue. C) Lines. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Props. 14. What are stage directions? *pick the best answer* A) Directions written in a scripts that help the performance along. B) Directions written in parenthesis in a script to guide actors and directors. C) Directions written in a script to guide the actors and actresses in their performance. D) Directions written in parenthesis in a script that tells the director how to direct the actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directions written in parenthesis in a script to guide actors and directors. 15. A ..... is a story or play that is acted out using characters in situations that imitate real life. A) Director. B) Conflict. C) Drama. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 16. Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes A) Stanza. B) Refrain. C) Couplet. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 17. The problem or issue the main character is having is the main ..... A) Plot. B) Conflict. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 18. Smaller divisions inside an Act. A) Scenes. B) Dialogue. C) Plot. D) Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scenes. 19. The writer of drama is called .. A) Playwright. B) Actor. C) Poet. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Playwright. 20. The type of irony when the audience knows something the characters in the play do not. A) Verbal. B) Aside. C) Dramatic. D) Situational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic. 21. Theater requires a(n) ..... to perform in front of and interact with the actors on stage. A) Props. B) Characters. C) Audience. D) Costumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 22. The falling action takes place during which act A) Act i. B) Act v. C) Act ii. D) Act iv. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act iv. 23. A play where the hero or the main character ultimately dies is called a ..... A) Comedy. B) Satire. C) Tragedy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 24. Why won't anyone tell the Emperor the truth about his new clothes? A) They are in on the con. B) They want to embarrass him. C) They do not want to look like a fool (if one can't see the clothes, that means they aren't smart). D) They are able to see the invisible clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They do not want to look like a fool (if one can't see the clothes, that means they aren't smart). 25. ..... is the time and location in a drama. It can affect the characters and setting. A) Stage directions. B) Scenes. C) Setting. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 26. The audience knows something the characters don't A) Drama. B) Improvisation. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Tragic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 27. The sorting out of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story is called the ..... A) Expansion. B) Resolution. C) Rising Action. D) Decision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resolution. 28. The lines the characters say A) Speaking. B) Dialogue. C) Plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 29. What is the purpose of stage directions? A) Paragraphs. B) Each line of a poem. C) To tell actors how to act or move, or tells what feelings to show. D) Repeats the same ending sounds in different words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To tell actors how to act or move, or tells what feelings to show. 30. A form of literature meant to be performed by actors for an audience; a play A) Poem. B) Prose. C) Drama. D) Movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 31. A humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound A) Alliteration. B) Pun. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 32. Dramas are meant to be- A) Sad. B) Performed by actors. C) Funny. D) Read silently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Performed by actors. 33. The part of the play script that tells actors how to move or speak their lines is called the ..... A) Stage. B) Stage directions. C) Setting. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage directions. 34. What is the item called in a drama that provides dialogue for characters and the narrator that they read and is organized by scenes? A) Script. B) Dialogue. C) Set. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Script. 35. What is the meaning of the term monologue A) Long speech by one single character. B) Long speech by two or more characters. C) Information that gives the where and when story took place. D) Information that gives the main struggle, or conflict, in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long speech by one single character. 36. Plot consists of ..... A) Exposition, How, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. B) Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. C) Exposition, Climax, Falling Action, Denouement, Resolution. D) When, Why, Climax, How. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution. 37. At the beginning of the play, the playwright lists and sometimes describes who is in the play. A) Set. B) Scene. C) Dialogue. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cast of characters. 38. Which is the correct name for "the characters in a drama" ? A) Directors. B) Actors. C) Props. D) Scenes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Actors. 39. The contrast between expectation and reality. A) Irony. B) Conflict. C) Climax. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 40. How many elements of drama are there? A) Ten. B) Eight. C) Six. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Six. 41. A play (drama) is a kind of ..... meant to be performed live for an audience A) Sonnet. B) Song. C) Poem. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Literature. 42. The series of related events that make up a story A) Plot. B) Dialogue. C) Sequence. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 43. What is a nonverbal gesture? A) Paying for food. B) Whispering. C) Facial expressions. D) Yelling and Screaming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Facial expressions. 44. Kitchen Sink Drama is a term used to denote plays on realism to explore ..... A) Darker side. B) Domestic social problems. C) Poverty. D) Sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Domestic social problems. 45. Two lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter; may be used to emphasize meaning. A) Rhyming couplet. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Blank verse. D) Comic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming couplet. 46. ..... are the people acting in play. A) Cast of characters. B) Narrator. C) Director. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast of characters. 47. A poem that is humorous and has five lines with a the rhyming pattern of (AABBA) A) Shape. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 48. A character makes a brief remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage do not hear A) Aside. B) Comment. C) Monologue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 49. Instructs actors on how to portray characters A) Director. B) Cast. C) Actor. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Director. 50. Which of the following would a commoner speak in? A) Poetry. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Blank Verse. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose. 51. Conversation between two or more characters A) Monologue. B) Dialect. C) Conversation. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 52. The conversation between two or more characters on stage is known as ..... A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Script. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 53. The actors use these items to make the drama believable A) Actors. B) Drama. C) Props. D) Set. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Props. 54. A character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Character Foil. C) Scene. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character Foil. 55. What do the stage directions tell the reader? A) What to do. B) Where to go. C) What is on the stage. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 56. The words characters speak aloud are A) Dialogue. B) Stage directions. C) Props. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 57. A fatal error in judgement or a weakness in a character that contributes to their downfall or death. Ex:Pride, greed, anger, gluttony A) Weak flaw. B) Unfortunate flaw. C) Fatal flaw. D) Tragic flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragic flaw. 58. A problem between two characters or forces A) Dialogue. B) Set. C) Conflict. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 59. What is dialogue? A) A conversation between one character and the audience. B) A speech given by one character for themselves. C) A speech given by one character to one or more other characters. D) A conversation between two or more characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A conversation between two or more characters. 60. It introduces the central moment of crisis that defines the conflict. A) Rising action. B) Falling action. C) Climax. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books