This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Being a university graduate, Jimmy was earning his livelihood by running a ..... A) Shop. B) Sweet stall. C) Hotel. D) Vegetable shop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sweet stall. 2. What are the five elements of a story? A) Character, language, purpose, plot, dialogue. B) Conflict, setting, history, theme, Monday. C) Setting, theme, character, plot, tacos. D) Character, conflict, resolution, theme, setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Character, conflict, resolution, theme, setting. 3. Which of the following is an example of dialogue in "Where's My Mummy?" A) Wilbur, Roy, Glen, a Mummy. B) Roy: "Hey! I'd know that laugh anywhere!". C) [The mummy climbs out of the tomb]. D) [Just them a mummy turns the corner]. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roy: "Hey! I'd know that laugh anywhere!". 4. ..... are the small movable items, such as a doctor's clipboard or a student's notebook, that the actors use to make their actions look realistic. A) Stage Directions. B) Theater. C) Drama. D) Props. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Props. 5. The conversation between two or more characters is called A) Soliloquy. B) Monologue. C) Dialogue. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue. 6. Read the following lines from the prose, "A Friend Comes to Town." This prose is divided into 1 ..... "You're coming? You're actually coming?" Lucy exclaimed with a huge grin on her face as she read a handwritten letter that had just arrived in the mail. The thought of her best friend Jay coming to spend the weekend at her house was almost more than she could handle. A) Sentence. B) Paragraph. C) Script. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paragraph. 7. Lines that are directly spoken by the character to the audience. A) Dialogue. B) Tragedy. C) Monologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 8. When the audience knows something that the characters do not is called ..... A) Foil. B) Dramatic irony. C) Comic relief. D) Tragic flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 9. A drama, or a play is a passage that tells a story using ..... characters say to each other. A) Songs. B) Lines. C) Books. D) Jokes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 10. Types of dramas: A) Plays, films and television shows. B) Movies, plays, and reality tv. C) Novels, plays, notebooks. D) Fables, short stories, poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plays, films and television shows. 11. Speech given by a single character while that character may be alone on stage A) Speech. B) Monologue. C) Comedy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 12. Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. He is the ..... ? A) Writer. B) Author. C) Audience. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Playwright. 13. Who was a greek philosopher? A) Aristotle. B) Hercules. C) Jon Colburn. D) Perseus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 14. One who rehearse with singers. A) Sound Engineer. B) Sound Designer. C) Musical Designer. D) Musical Director. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Musical Director. 15. What is a couplet? A) A dramatic device wherein a character speaks to someone that is absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive, present and able to reply. B) Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. C) A play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications. D) A unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. This device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. This device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought. 16. A character who is much like another character is status and background but has opposite traits which provide a contrast and conflict between two characters. A) Foil. B) Dramatic irony. C) Tragic hero. D) Characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 17. The ..... is the sequence of events in a play. A) Act. B) Plot. C) Stage directions. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 18. What is a struggle between two opposite characters or forces? A) Resolution. B) Fight. C) Script. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 19. What is trochaic tetrameter? A) A brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion. B) Straightforward, ordinary speech. Does not contain rhythm or meter. C) Rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter. D) A poetic meter that contains four feet. Each foot is made up of stressed / unstressed pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A poetic meter that contains four feet. Each foot is made up of stressed / unstressed pattern. 20. How is drama different from other kinds of fiction? A) Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings. B) Drama has more characters than other kinds of fiction. C) Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots. D) Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience. 21. Term for the author of a dramatic work. A) Set designer. B) Stage manager. C) Director. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Playwright. 22. Here is the types of drama, except ..... A) Comedy. B) Gothic. C) Tragic comedy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gothic. 23. A long speech given by one character. A) Aside. B) Tragedy. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 24. The ..... is the main character in a drama. A) Poor girl or hero. B) Extra. C) Antagonist. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 25. Shakespeare is playwright in the ..... Period. A) Victorian. B) Renaissance. C) Elizabethan. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance. 26. The action or main events A) Main idea. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 27. A major unit of action in a play similar that is similar to a chapter in a book. A) Character. B) Act. C) Scene. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 28. Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 29. The first Drama is celebration toward ..... A) Choregon. B) Dionysus. C) Thespis. D) Theatron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dionysus. 30. A type (of literature, music, etc.) A) Genre. B) Stage directions. C) Play. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 31. (The actor walks to the kitchen and places an an apple on the table)This is an example of a ..... A) Stage Direction. B) Cast of characters. C) Dialogue. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage Direction. 32. What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet? A) ABCD ABCD ABCD EFG. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) AABB AABB AABB CD. D) There is no rhyme scheme in a sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 33. Themes often express ..... A) Thoughts. B) Characters. C) An author's message. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An author's message. 34. What is the plot 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: C) The series of related events that make up a story; It consists of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. 35. The following is an example of which structural element of drama?Narrator 1Narrator 2Big Bad WolfFirst Little PigSecond Little PigThird Little Pig A) Lines. B) Cast of Characters. C) Setting. D) Stage Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cast of Characters. 36. Text written in verse or prose meant to convey a story or action, mostly through dialogue; typically designed for performance A) Drama. B) Musical Theatre. C) Poetry. D) Theatre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 37. Drama is usually divided into A) Chapters. B) Scenes. C) Acts. D) Scenes and acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scenes and acts. 38. Which is a text feature of prose? A) Paragraphs. B) Rhyme. C) Cast of characters. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paragraphs. 39. The repetition of sounds, usually consonant sounds, at the beginning of words A) Refrain. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 40. A group of lines is? A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Line. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 41. A division of an act in a play is called? A) Scene. B) Segment. C) Part. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scene. 42. Repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words such as: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood." A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 43. The setting of a play has to do with the A) Characters. B) Props. C) Stage directions. D) Time and place. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time and place. 44. Why is it important for the director, set designer, costume designer, and lighting designer to plan their design ideas together? A) In order for the costume designer to dress the entire cast in white costumes. B) To avoid design aspects that will conflict with each other. C) So the lighting designer can plan the design based on his/her ideas first. D) So all of the lights can be hung on the structure of the set. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To avoid design aspects that will conflict with each other. 45. This is similar to "theme" in literature. A) Tone. B) Thematic Irony. C) Thought. D) Tense. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thought. 46. Scenes in a drama show ..... A) What time it is. B) The years pass by. C) The setting changing over time. D) Where to start the movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The setting changing over time. 47. Comments that delivers directly to the audience while other actors on the stage appear not to hear is called ..... A) Dialog. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 48. A story told through words, actions and is meant to be performed for an audience A) Cast of characters. B) Scene. C) Play or drama. D) Actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Play or drama. 49. A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, or history A) Aside. B) Analogy. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 50. Term for the shortcoming, weakness, or vice of the main character that causes his downfall. A) Tragic flaw. B) Static trait. C) Tragedy. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragic flaw. 51. Complete the sentence. A melodrama differs from a tragedy in that the important events of the plot are caused by random forces, rather than ..... A) The responsibility of the protagonist. B) A spiteful god. C) A vengeful antagonist. D) Cruel twists of fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The responsibility of the protagonist. 52. A person who writes plays is A) Illustrator. B) Playwright. C) Author. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playwright. 53. What part of a play is similar to a chapter in a book? A) Stanza. B) Act. C) Line. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 54. These stories teach a moral or lesson. A) Legends. B) Myths. C) Fables. D) Folktales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fables. 55. Acts are often divided into smaller sections called ..... A) Scenes. B) Stories. C) Sets. D) Scripts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scenes. 56. The problem, or struggle that the characters face is ..... A) The conflict. B) The conclusion. C) The exposition. D) The setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The conflict. 57. Suspense and tension starts to build during the ..... A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising action. 58. The written stage directions and dialogue for actors in a play A) Characters. B) Dialogue. C) Script. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 59. Indirect Characterization A) Reveals aspects of a character through their thoughts, actions, feelings, speech, and relation with other characters. B) Reveals aspects of a character through their actions, thoughts, speech, and other external characteristics. Information about the character that is explicitly given in the text. C) The main character of a story or drama. D) The supporting characters that talk directly to the main character in a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reveals aspects of a character through their thoughts, actions, feelings, speech, and relation with other characters. 60. ..... are the scripts for films. A) Teleplays. B) Radio Plays. C) Theater. D) Screenplays. 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