This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a list of humans or animals that are important to the plot and also speak and perform actions? A) Stage directions. B) Narrator. C) Cast of characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cast of characters. 2. A subdivision of an act. A) Act. B) Character. C) Setting. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scene. 3. A drama and a prose could both have the following A) Verses and stanzas. B) Characters and stage directions. C) Dialogue and a setting. D) Setting and stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue and a setting. 4. Term for a speech in which a character expresses his thoughts while alone on stage. A) Aside. B) Dialogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 5. What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyberbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. One character, alone on stage, speaking his or her mind and heart to the audience A) Foil. B) Monologue. C) Soliloquy. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 7. The conversation between two or more characters in a literary work. A) Dialogue. B) Playwright. C) Script. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 8. A monologue that states the inner feelings and thoughts of a character. A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soliloquy. 9. Which of the following best describes a "script" ? A) The written words that characters speak and directions in a play/drama. B) The problem or struggle in a story. C) The "chapters" of a play/drama. D) The place where a drama is performed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The written words that characters speak and directions in a play/drama. 10. What is inversion? A) A poetic meter that contains four feet. Each foot is made up of stressed / unstressed syllables. B) Rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter. C) Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. 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: B) Rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter. 11. Complete the sentence:The meaning of the play is known as ..... A) The setting. B) The spectacle. C) The plot. D) The theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The theme. 12. Where is description found in? A) Poetry, Drama, Prose. B) Prose. C) Drama and Poetry. D) Prose and Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry, Drama, Prose. 13. The ..... between opposing forces in a play can be external (between characters) or internal (within a character) and is usually resolved by the end of the play. A) Anticipation. B) Memory. C) Conflict. D) Tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 14. Which is not an element of fiction in drama? A) Plot. B) Dialogue. C) Morals. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morals. 15. What is another word for "drama?" A) Story. B) Play. C) Movie. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Play. 16. Choose correct conjunction A) Because. B) Although. C) Whenever. D) Since. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because. 17. A minor division in a drama. A) Stage directions. B) Dialogue. C) Act. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scene. 18. It introduces the characters and dramatic situation of the story or play. A) Exposition. B) Falling action. C) Rising action. D) Denouement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rising action. 19. This is how the conflict is or not resolved.. A) Exposition. B) Climax. C) Resolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 20. Well, in that hit you miss:she'll not be hitWith Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.Which literary device is used in the above lines? A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 21. We should be able to distinguish the characters of a play from one another based on all of the following characteristics, except for ..... A) Use of the same tone by each character. B) Physical appearance. C) Age, ethnicity, subculture. D) Political and religious beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of the same tone by each character. 22. Term for a serious play that usually ends with the death of the main character(s). A) Comedy. B) Passion play. C) Tragedy. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 23. People, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of a work of literature. A) Dynamic Character. B) Character motivation. C) Character. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character. 24. What is the correct term for "words that the characters say in a drama" ? A) Acts. B) Dialogue. C) Title. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 25. Mystery play exists in ..... period. A) Elizabethan. B) Greek. C) Middle Ages. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle Ages. 26. The struggle between the protagonist and an opposing force- A) Conflict. B) Complication. C) Argument. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conflict. 27. A group of viewers or listeners present at a performance (drama, concert, or lecture). A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Audience. D) Stage Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 28. Which of these are divided by Acts and Scenes? A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) Poetry, Drama, and Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 29. The protagonist of a play is ..... A) The leading character and is always good. B) The leading character and is not necessarily good. C) Actively opposes the leading character. D) Actively hostile towards the leading character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The leading character and is not necessarily good. 30. A smaller unit of a play in which there is no shift of location or time A) Scene. B) Inversion. C) Low humor. D) Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scene. 31. A/An ..... is a major division of a play. The play may be divided into several of these. A) Drama. B) Stage directions. C) Act. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act. 32. A ..... is a place where plays are usually presented. A) Drama. B) Playwright. C) Theater. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theater. 33. According to Aristotle, a tragedy should provoke which TWO emotions? A) Pity / empathy. B) Fear / happiness. C) Empathy / sympathy. D) Fear / pity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fear / pity. 34. What is an allusion? A) A brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion. B) A brief speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage. C) The 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. D) Rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion. 35. The written conversation between two or more characters in a play is called A) Dialogue. B) Cliche. C) Playwright. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 36. A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought A) Sonnet. B) Lyric. C) Narrative. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 37. A character breaks the fourth wall to interact with the audience. A) Soliloquy. B) Dialogue. C) Aside. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 38. The events in the story following the climax but before the resolution. A) Climax. B) Resolution. C) Falling action. D) Inciting incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling action. 39. ..... :the parts a play is divided into. A) Narrator. B) Acts/Scenes. C) Characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acts/Scenes. 40. This is where the drama, or play, is set A) Bob. B) Characters. C) Setting. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 41. A play that ends with the death of a main character. A) Line. B) Tragedy. C) Foil. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 42. Lines that are spoke by a character directly to the audience are called a/an A) Aside. B) Monologue. C) Rant. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aside. 43. Which of these is an example of situational irony? A) The police arrest a firefighter. B) The fire station is robbed. C) Firefighters put out a fire at the police station. D) The police station gets robbed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The police station gets robbed. 44. A form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience. A) Diary. B) Broadway. C) Drama. D) Movie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 45. What role does the playwright play? A) The sound technician of a play. B) The main character of a play. C) The author of a play. D) The editor of a play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The author of a play. 46. The "good guy" the audience is rooting for in the play. A) Foil. B) Tragedy. C) Antagonist. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protagonist. 47. They take their orders from the stage manager to move the scenery and properties or "props" around the stage. A) Hands. B) Crew. C) Props Manager. D) Set Designer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crew. 48. What the actors wear A) Scene. B) Props. C) Setting. D) Costumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Costumes. 49. It is a comic drama piece that uses highly improbable situations. A) Domestic tragedy. B) Pathetic drama. C) Heroic drama. D) Farce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Farce. 50. When someone writes about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of a play or story it is called a ..... A) Summary. B) Flashback. C) Dialogue. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summary. 51. A brief monologue for the audience that is unheard by other characters A) Foil. B) Monologue. C) Prologue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 52. ROMEO With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt.Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.JULIET If they do see thee, they will murder thee.Which character traits best fit Romeo based on the lines above? A) Bold and impulsive. B) Sullen and depressed. C) Cautious and analytical. D) Defensive and hot headed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bold and impulsive. 53. It provides and showcases the opposing objectives of the protagonist and the antagonist, or inside the protagonist. A) Irony. B) Foreshadowing. C) Flashback. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conflict. 54. Construction on the stage that shows time/place. Could be called Scenery. A) Props. B) Theatre. C) Set. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Set. 55. What type of writing is written in lines? A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 56. Lines of dialogue-the format of a play A) Poetry. B) Narrative. C) Script. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Script. 57. It introduces the aftermath of conflict, whether it is resolved or not. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling action. 58. Acts divided into smaller sections ..... A) Script. B) Scene. C) Act. D) Excerpt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scene. 59. Stage directions tell us: A) The character's emotions. B) What the characters do. C) The scenery and props. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 60. The struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposite forces. A) Climax. B) Conflict. C) Monologue. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflict. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books