This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is an example of a Legend? A) Paul Bunyan. B) Hercules. C) Davy Crockett. D) The Fox and the Hound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Davy Crockett. 2. Is a fourteen line poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Heroic couplet. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 3. What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 4. Form of drama combining music, songs, spoken dialogue, and dance A) Theatre. B) Musical Theatre. C) Drama. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Musical Theatre. 5. The time and place A) Setting. B) Set. C) Drama. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 6. A group of actors who make up a film or stage play: A) Cast/characters. B) People. C) Audience. D) The narrartor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast/characters. 7. When the conflict is between multiple characters or forces in a drama (argument or physical fight). A) Unimportant conflict. B) Complicated conflict. C) External conflict. D) Internal conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) External conflict. 8. A comic line or moment that offsets more serious content. A) Rhyming couplet. B) Comic relief. C) Blank verse. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comic relief. 9. What is the Theme? A) Author's purpose. B) The setting of the play. C) The author's instructions to actors. D) The author's message to the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The author's message to the reader. 10. In a poem, a group of lines forming a unit (paragraph in prose) A) Sonnet. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Stanza. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 11. Which of the following is NOT a component of PLOT? A) Rising action. B) Characterization. C) Climax. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization. 12. The cast of characters is ..... A) A play intended to make an audience laugh. B) The signal given to people working in or on a play. C) Lines spoken between characters in a play. D) The people who perform in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The people who perform in a play. 13. Put ..... around a speaker's exact words A) Commas. B) Quotation marks. C) Speaker's tags. D) An indention. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotation marks. 14. When a character tells their inner thoughts aloud is known as a- A) Soliloquy. B) Prologue. C) Monologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soliloquy. 15. The problem between the two characters is known as ..... A) Issue. B) Tension. C) Conflict. D) Set. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 16. Drama is written to be ..... A) Criticize. B) Analyzed. C) Performed. D) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Performed. 17. The major sections of a play A) Script. B) Acts. C) Drama. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acts. 18. What are stage directions in a play? A) The information provided at the beginning of a story (setting, characters, etc.). B) The information provided in a play to offer guidance to the actorsand director as to what they should be going. C) The information provided in a play that describes the place, time, and mood. D) The information provided at the end of the play that describes thelessons learned by the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The information provided in a play to offer guidance to the actorsand director as to what they should be going. 19. ..... is often contrasted with comedy. A distinguishing feature of this type of drama is that the events lead to the down fall of the main character. A) Theater. B) Tragedy. C) Comedy. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 20. In the theater, the performance takes place on the stage. The stage is decorated by a set, which represents the setting or settings where the play takes place. Everything on the set that the actors use are called props. Everything the actors wear are the costumes. There are also special lights and sounds that go into creating a performance. All of these elements are created by artists called theater designers.There is a whole second team of people behind the scenes or backstage making sure the play runs smoothly. These include the stage manager, who runs the play's technical aspects like changing the lights and sounds. There are also people moving scenery and props and helping the actors change costumes. All these people together are called the crew.During the performance of a play, who would be most likely to fix a technical problem that arises? A) The director. B) The stage manager. C) A designer. D) An actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The stage manager. 21. Why were the first plays written? A) To entertain. B) To honor a greek god. C) Because they were bored. D) To teach a lesson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To honor a greek god. 22. Which of the following best supports your answer to question 1? A) JONAS:How can people be so cruel? (p. 16). B) JONAS:People need the memories so they can understand. Because if you can't feel, what's the point of life? (pp. 16-17). C) JONAS:Do you ever wonder what elsewhere is like? (p. 14). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) JONAS:People need the memories so they can understand. Because if you can't feel, what's the point of life? (pp. 16-17). 23. Which of Charlie's characteristics prove that he is a protagonist? A) His all-around good grades. B) His willingness to help to help others in need. C) His talent for analyzing difficult situations. D) His ability to do well in a particular subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His willingness to help to help others in need. 24. A change in lighting, sounds, or props to show a new time or place is called a/an ..... A) Scene. B) Act. C) Stage directions. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scene. 25. It is a moveable object that appears on stage during a performance. A) Light. B) Scenery. C) Sound. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Props. 26. What is often divided into chapters? A) Poetry. B) Drama. C) Prose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 27. Two or more scenes can be grouped into an ..... A) Climax. B) Act. C) Scene. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 28. Why do authors use dialect? A) To help the character come to life. B) To show that characters interact with each other. C) To keep the reader guessing. D) To fill up space in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To help the character come to life. 29. When what is said is different than what is meant. A) Verbal irony. B) Tragedy. C) Dramatic irony. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 30. Form of literature that is written to be performed for an audience. A) Theme. B) Dynamic. C) Foil. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama. 31. The way in which a play is arranged or organized is called ..... . A) Dialogue. B) Stage directions. C) Drama. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 32. A group of verses in a poem are called ..... ? A) Stanzas. B) Rhythm. C) Prose. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 33. The action in plays is divided into ..... and acts. A) Props. B) Scenes. C) Chapter. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scenes. 34. Provides information such as the time and place of the story or description of the setting. A) Foreshadow. B) Playwright. C) Stage Direction. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage Direction. 35. One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza A) Aside. B) Refrain. C) Dialogue. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 36. The writer of a play is called ..... A) Player. B) Playwright. C) Poet. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playwright. 37. What is the theme of "The Sound of Money?" A) You should always let a judge make a decision. B) Never charge for the smell of food. C) Be kind to those less fortunate than you. D) It's okay to pay with the sound of money. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Be kind to those less fortunate than you. 38. The characters talk to himself is called .. A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 39. The final situation in a story (the way things end up) A) Resolution. B) Falling Action. C) Climax. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution. 40. A paragraph in poetry, A) Pattern of verse. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 41. An actor speaks directly and aloud to the members of the audience and it is assumed other characters didn't hear. A) Aside. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 42. These plays focused on comedies which has a quality being encouraged by King Charles II. A) Comedy plays. B) Morality Plays. C) Gameplays. D) Restoration Plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restoration Plays. 43. In drama, the ANTAGONIST is ..... A) The "bad guy". B) The "good guy". C) The writer of the drama. D) The setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "bad guy". 44. A rhythm pattern with five units, or feet, each of which has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable A) Sonnet. B) Structure. C) Chorus. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iambic pentameter. 45. Which of the following does not contain alliteration? A) If seven maids with seven mops. B) The moon winked through the clouds. C) Along the briny broken beach. D) Four other oysters followed him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moon winked through the clouds. 46. This is an example of:GASTON:Hello, Belle. BELLE:Bonjour Gaston. (GASTON grabs the book from BELLE) Gaston, may I have my book, please? GASTON:How can you read this? There's no pictures! BELLE:Well, some people use their imaginations. A) Monologue. B) Stage directions. C) Dialogue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 47. What is the beginning, middle, and end of a play? A) Plot. B) Events. C) Chronological Order. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 48. ..... :When and where the play takes place. A) Setting. B) Place. C) House. D) Nest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting. 49. What is an example of a Tall Tale? A) Uncle Septimus's Beard. B) Cinderella. C) The Tortoise and the Hare. D) The Legend of Michigan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncle Septimus's Beard. 50. A play in which the main character suffers a downfall, which may result from outside forces or a weakness in the character (tragic flaw) A) Sonnet. B) Tragedy. C) Comedy. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 51. A/An ..... is a story written to be performed in front of an audience. A) Drama. B) Act. C) Dialogue. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 52. Conclusion to story that reveals solution to problem/ conflict; not all stories have a clear resolution A) Resolution/ Denouement. B) Exposition/ Introduction. C) Rising Action. D) Falling Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resolution/ Denouement. 53. The main character of a literary work is called the ..... A) Stage director. B) Protagonist. C) Antagonist. D) Scene creator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist. 54. The ..... is the written version of the play. A) Dialogue. B) Script. C) Act. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scene. 55. Type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse; suffering awaits many of the characters, especially the hero A) Comedy. B) Chick flick. C) Tragedy. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 56. The climax of the drama takes place when ..... A) Mr. Rodriguez learns what has occurred. B) Charlie agrees to help Jeremiah study. C) Ricky informs his classmates of what he witnessed. D) Jordan receives the ticket for having the highest test score in class. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ricky informs his classmates of what he witnessed. 57. This is the written text of a play. A) Book. B) Papers. C) Script. D) Text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 58. Complete the sentence. The ..... is non-judgmental and ends with no absolutes. A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Melodrama. D) Tragicomedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragicomedy. 59. The lines of the text the characters SPEAK are called ..... A) Elements. B) Script. C) Words. D) Dialouge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialouge. 60. What is the element in a drama that tells the actors how to act or what to do? A) Description. B) Stage directions. C) Dialogue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage directions. ← 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