This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The play or drama is organized in ..... A) Chapters. B) Acts and scenes. C) Episodes. D) Pages and numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acts and scenes. 2. A "subchapter" in a piece of drama is a(n) A) Setting. B) Act. C) Scene. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scene. 3. Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter A) Form. B) Free verse. C) Blank verse. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 4. Which of the following elements are only in drama? A) Dialogue, plot, setting. B) Characters, stage directions, scenes. C) Stage directions, scenes, acts. D) Conflict, setting, characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stage directions, scenes, acts. 5. Which of the following are quotation marks? A) '. B) ". C) ,. D) ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ". 6. The following are the examples of performance elements, except ..... A) Non-verbal expression. B) Speaking. C) Acting. D) Stage direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage direction. 7. The written instructions in the play indicating movement, position, sound effects, prop placement, and lighting. A) Stage directions. B) Characterization. C) Dialogue. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage directions. 8. How an actor dresses to express the personality, era, and type of character that is being portrayed is called the: A) Props. B) Propaganda. C) Costume. D) Customary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Costume. 9. Which of these is NOT an example of Prose? A) Newspaper article. B) A book. C) A short story. D) A song. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A song. 10. It introduces the moment of insight, discovery or revelation of the character after the falling action. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Denouement. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denouement. 11. Where the action of the play takes place; has three literal walls and one invisible wall. A) Genre. B) Play. C) Drama. D) Stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage. 12. Which of the following is NOT a role of a STAGE MANAGER? A) One who keep the show up and running. B) Helping the actors/actresses develop their individual characters. C) Tell what time everyone has to be at the theatre. D) Manage the lighting and sound cues. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helping the actors/actresses develop their individual characters. 13. It is a piece of writing in the form of drama composed of dialogue, stage directions and instructions to the actors and director. A) Script. B) Comedy. C) Drama. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Script. 14. It is the effects an audience hears during performance to communicate character, context, or environment A) Scenery. B) Sound. C) Light. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 15. A subdivision of an act with a fixed setting and continuous time frame. A) A drama. B) A scene. C) An act. D) A soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A scene. 16. A person who writes the play is called ..... A) Writer. B) Poet. C) Playwright. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playwright. 17. A piece of writing done through dialogue A) Act. B) Drama. C) Scene. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 18. In the Transition Period, there was an increase in technical skill, and playwrights began to create dramas more focused on ..... and ..... subject matter than tragic emotion. A) Improving and acknowledging. B) Appreciating and completing. C) Thrilling and exciting. D) Singing and dancing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thrilling and exciting. 19. Speech between characters in a play: A) Lines. B) Script. C) Dialogue. D) Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 20. Which god were people worshipping during the festival when these plays were performed? A) Dionysus. B) Hermes. C) Apollo. D) Ares. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dionysus. 21. He was the first to write about the essential elements of drama more than 2, 000 years ago. A) Aristotle. B) Michelangelo. C) Plato. D) Hades. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 22. "Acts" in a play/drama can be compared to ..... A) A character's actions and performance. B) Attitudes in different characters. C) The place where the drama begins. D) The "chapters" in a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The "chapters" in a book. 23. ..... are the sets of bracketed information that describe the scenery and how the characters should move and speak A) Dialogue. B) Stage Directions. C) Monologue. D) Dramatic Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage Directions. 24. Type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better; things work out happily in the end A) Drama. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedy. 25. A character or force against which another character struggles is called the ..... A) Protagonist. B) Bad guy. C) Evildoer. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antagonist. 26. Conversation between two or more characters in a play is called A) Monologue. B) Dialect. C) Dialogue. D) Talking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 27. The sequence of events in a story or drama is called the A) Plot. B) Chapter. C) Main idea. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 28. Which of these is NOT an example of an allusion? A) "This place is like a Garden of Eden.". B) A red rose, or the color red, stands for love or romance. C) "Don't act like a Romeo in front of her.". D) The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora's box of crimes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A red rose, or the color red, stands for love or romance. 29. The most important lesson in the play that the playwright wants the audience to learn- A) Stage directions. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Character dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 30. What is the cast of characters A) A list of people in the play. B) The main actor. C) The least needed people in the play. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A list of people in the play. 31. The text of the play is called the ..... It includes the dialogue the actors speak and stage directions. A) Piece. B) Notebook. C) Script. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 32. When does the climax occur in a story? A) The least exciting part of the story. B) The most exciting part of the story. C) The funniest part of the story. D) The saddest part of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The most exciting part of the story. 33. A serious play with a sad or disastrous ending A) Motive. B) Tragedy. C) Low humor. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 34. What is the special form that a play is written in? A) Dialogue. B) Narrator. C) Script. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 35. What are rhyming words? A) When a poet repeats words or phrases in a poem. B) Words that imitate sounds. C) Words that help the reader hear, see, smell and touch what is happening in the poem. D) Two or more words that have a matching end sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two or more words that have a matching end sound. 36. Reasons for a characters behavior. A) Motivation. B) Characterization. C) Conflict. D) Actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motivation. 37. This refers to the words written by the playwright and spoken by the characters in the play. A) Story. B) Script. C) Dialogue. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 38. The Middle Ages drama is taken from .. A) Epic. B) Bible. C) Myth. D) Folktale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bible. 39. Refers to two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. A) Couplet. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Sonnet. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 40. ..... is another word for set. A) Scenery. B) Set. C) Stage Directions. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scenery. 41. The person who portrays a character in a performance. A) Scriptwriter. B) Author. C) Playwright. D) Actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Actors. 42. The elements of a drama interact to create A) A play. B) Meaning. C) A drama. D) A setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meaning. 43. A comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Aside. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 44. What is the conflict of a drama? A) A struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces. For example, a character might struggle internally to make a difficult decision or choice. B) The time and place in which a story occurs; It can be in the past, present, or future. C) The series of related events that make up a story; It consists of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. D) A person (or an animal) in a literary work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces. For example, a character might struggle internally to make a difficult decision or choice. 45. A drama is intended to be ..... for an audience. A) Fun. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Performance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Performance. 46. This is a division of a play or an act of a play where the action takes place in one location without a break in time. A) Dialogue. B) Props. C) Scene. D) Intermission. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scene. 47. Furniture or objects placed on stage during a performance are called ..... A) Dialogue. B) Plot. C) Props. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Props. 48. A short speech at the end of the play is ..... A) Prolog. B) Epilog. C) Dialog. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epilog. 49. The character against the protagonist in a drama is called ..... A) Villain. B) Antagonist. C) Bad guy. D) Extra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 50. What are the lines of the text the character speaks in the play called? A) Words. B) Dialogue. C) Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 51. A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience A) Dramatic irony. B) Drama. C) Tragedy. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 52. The action or main events of a story or script/play/drama A) Main idea. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 53. Notes in a script of a play to tell the actors when and where to come on stage, move around, or go off stage A) Subtext. B) Monologue. C) Inversion. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage directions. 54. Who are the characters in a drama? A) This is what the acts are broken up into. B) Play that presents a serious situation. C) The struggle between opposing forces. D) People who are in a story actors in a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People who are in a story actors in a play. 55. When a character speaks in order to be heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by the other characters. A) Aside. B) Pun. C) Dramatic irony. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 56. The spoken words of the characters. What am I? A) Characters. B) Lines. C) Acts. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 57. In parenthesis or italics to give extra information to the actors. A) Soliloquy. B) Characters. C) Drama. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage directions. 58. Complete the sentence. The audience of a comedy learns the error of its behaviors due to the ..... behavior of the actors. A) Cruel. B) Honorable. C) Ethical. D) Ridiculous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ridiculous. 59. A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast A) Foil. B) Archaic. C) Pun. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 60. An unhappy ending A) Tragedy. B) Comedy. C) Plot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books