This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Someone who writes plays and also known as a dramatist. A) Actors. B) Playwright. C) Character. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playwright. 2. John Osborne's play was the first to explore the theme of the ..... A) Frustration. B) Upper class society. C) Discrimination. D) Angry Young Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angry Young Man. 3. An interruption of a play's timeline to present an incident that occurred before the main time-frame of the play's action is called ..... A) Irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) Dramatic effect. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flashback. 4. Question 1:How is drama different from other kinds of fiction? A) Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots. B) Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience. C) Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings. D) Drama has more characters than other kinds of fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience. 5. A smaller section of a play that marks a change in setting, characters or action A) Acts. B) Scene. C) Script. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scene. 6. When a character speaks to themselves, relating thoughts or feeling to the audience. A) Props. B) Foil Character. C) Soliloquy. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 7. What category explains how something was created? A) Fables. B) Fairy Tales. C) Traditional Stories. D) Myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myths. 8. Several verses grouped together is called a A) Dialogue in drama. B) Paragraph of prose. C) Stanza of poetry. D) Stanza of prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza of poetry. 9. Romeo! Humours, madman, passion, lover!Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh! ..... I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us.This is an example of: A) A couplet. B) Dramatic irony. C) A soliloquy. D) Comedic relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 10. ..... is a form of literature that is performed by actors before an audience A) Nonfiction. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 11. A character giving a long, uninterrupted speech in the presence of others on stage A) Drama. B) Dialogue. C) Monologue. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monologue. 12. Opposition of persons or forces that bring dramatic action; central idea to the plot of the story A) Internal conflict. B) Conflict. C) Rising action. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. 13. A drama in literature is ..... A) An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. B) The place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening. C) A play for theater, radio, or television. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A play for theater, radio, or television. 14. The form of live theatre in which the plot, characters and dialogue of a game, scene or story are made up in the moment. A) Improvisation. B) Comedy. C) Theater. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Improvisation. 15. A person who write a play is called- A) A poet. B) An author. C) A playwright. D) An artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A playwright. 16. The written text of a play that the performers refer to for their lines is often referred to as the A) Script. B) Scenes. C) Dialogue. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Script. 17. Choose sentence that correctly uses a subordinating conjunction A) A. B) C. C) D. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B. 18. What do you mean by a dialogue? A) Short dramatic work performed by one actor. B) Conversation between two or more people. C) The internal thoughts of one or more actors. D) One or more characters sing on stage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conversation between two or more people. 19. Humorous, pokes fun at respected subjects. A) Middlebrow Comedy. B) Low Comedy. C) Travesty. D) High Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High Comedy. 20. Choose the structural elements in which poetry is written. A) Poems are organized in complete sentences with paragraphs. B) Poems are organized in complete sentences with stanzas. C) Poems are organized in lines with stanzas. D) Poems are organized in lines with paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poems are organized in lines with stanzas. 21. Which of the following can be found within a script? A) Acts and scenes. B) Dialogue. C) Setting description. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. A character who is a side kick. A) Round. B) Major Character. C) Main Character. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foil. 23. What is iambic pentameter? A) A speech, usually lengthy, that is given by a character to an intended audience. B) A poetic meter that contains five feet. Each foot is made of an unstressed / stressed pattern. C) A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications. D) A poetic meter that contains four feet. Each foot is made up of stressed / unstressed pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A poetic meter that contains five feet. Each foot is made of an unstressed / stressed pattern. 24. Complete the sentence. The audience of the tragedy will leave the theater feeling ....., according to Aristotle. A) Repulsed and disgusted. B) Depressed and saddened. C) Angry and violent. D) Inspired and enlightened. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspired and enlightened. 25. In drama, the ANTAGONIST is ..... Hint-Anti means opposite. A) The setting. B) The "good guy". C) The writer of the drama. D) The "bad guy". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The "bad guy". 26. This is an example of internal conflict. A) Man v society. B) Man v nature. C) Man v self. D) Man v man. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man v self. 27. What uses rhythm, rhyme, and meter? A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 28. Written instructions that explain how characters should look, move, speak, and behave; specify details of the setting and scenery A) Stage directions. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Structure. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage directions. 29. Change in pitch or loudness of the voice. A) Projection. B) Speaking style. C) Inflection. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflection. 30. ..... is the painted background on a theatre or stage. It is another word for set. A) Stage Directions. B) Theater. C) Set. D) Scenery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scenery. 31. Read the following passage from the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder:George:Hello Emily!Emily:[Shyly, turning from trellis] H'lo!George:[Edging down center, socking mitt with baseball] You made a fine speech in class.Emily:Well ..... I was really ready to talk about the Monroe Doctrine, but at the last minute Miss Corcoran made me talk about the Louisiana Purchase instead. I worked an awful long time on both of them.George:[Puts ball in back pocket, looks at own house, edges to the bench] Gee, it's funny Emily. From my window up there I can just see your head nights when you're doing your homework over in your room. [Both face front, shy throughout]Which of these is a prop in this scene? A) A baseball. B) A pencil. C) A bucket. D) A fork. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A baseball. 32. This is an example of:It would be great If I could skateA figure eight But my poor legs just won't keep straight A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 33. Person telling the story. A) Monologue. B) Narrator. C) Clown. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 34. What are person, animal or figures in the play called? A) Scene. B) Characters. C) Props. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters. 35. Stage directions are ..... read out loud. A) Never. B) Always. C) Sometimes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never. 36. A lengthy speech that one character addresses to others on stage. A) Aside. B) Dialogue. C) Set. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 37. A short, funny episode that interrupts a serious or tragic work of drama; may break tension, provide a twist, or emphasize unfolding tragedy A) Soliloquy. B) Comic relief. C) Prologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comic relief. 38. Which of the following can the reader assume will happen when Charlie, Ricky, and Jeremiah return to Mr. Rodriguez's classroom after school? A) Jordan will have to answer for her offense. B) Jeremiah will be allowed to choose a new seat. C) Ricky will receive a reward for reporting what he saw. D) Mr. Rodriguez will allow Jeremiah to decide Jordan's punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jordan will have to answer for her offense. 39. It's a narrative device that is used in fiction and drama as a guide or hint at what is to happen next in the story. A) Foreshadowing. B) Flashback. C) Irony. D) Deus ex machina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foreshadowing. 40. In drama, the PROTAGONIST is ..... Hint-Think main character A) The "good guy". B) The writer of the drama. C) The setting. D) The "bad guy". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "good guy". 41. Spoken dialogue by a character in a play. A) Stage Directions. B) Act. C) Line. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 42. How many types of poetry are there? A) 2. B) 12. C) More than 50. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More than 50. 43. Conversations between characters is called: A) Soliloquy. B) Monologue. C) Aside. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 44. What are instructions written into the script of the play? A) Orders. B) Stage directions. C) Commands. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stage directions. 45. Here is the part of drama, except ..... A) Scene. B) Act. C) Allegory. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 46. A plot structure includes ..... in this order:Exposition, rising action, ....., falling action and ..... A) Resolution and climax. B) Climax and resolution. C) More falling action. D) Dialogue and setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax and resolution. 47. The ..... gives the audience information about what is happening in the play. A) Characters. B) Director. C) Narrator. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrator. 48. ..... is what the character is saying. A) Playwright. B) Dialogue. C) Stage Directions. D) Cast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 49. The character flaw in the hero/heroine that leads to his/her downfall A) Foil. B) Tragedy. C) Tragic Flaw. D) Dramatic Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragic Flaw. 50. ..... is one line of a poem. A) Verse. B) Theme. C) Setting. D) Pose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 51. Physical and sometimes vulgar. A) Middlebrow Comedy. B) Low Comedy. C) Rule of Three. D) High Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low Comedy. 52. Who gives the audience information about what is happening in the play A) Narrator. B) Director. C) Actor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrator. 53. Which type of drama contains the downfall of the main character, focuses on human suffering and presents the protagonist with one or more catastrophes? A) Drama. B) Romance. C) Comedy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy. 54. Plan made by a choreographer (dance creator) of movements and steps made by dancers on stage A) Libretto. B) Alliteration. C) Choreography. D) Dance moves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choreography. 55. This house is as clean as a whistle. Is an example of .. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Analogy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 56. Was is the script A) The things the actors in the play say. B) The director. C) People. D) A word on paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The things the actors in the play say. 57. Words spoken by one of the characers when they are alone A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Script. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 58. A subdivision of an act that changes for a new time or location; ends when characters leave the stage. A) Act. B) Foil. C) Stage Directions. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scene. 59. ..... is a word that is often used to describe plays that address serious subjects. A) Comedy. B) Theater. C) Tragedy. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama. 60. It is the sequence of events happening in the story. A) Setting. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books