This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama – Quiz 33 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 33 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Acts are divided into A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Scenes. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scenes. 2. What is poetry? A) A play written with scenes and acts. Dialogue is not placed in quotation marks but instead with a script. Stage directions provide information about how characters should act. B) Expressive writing written with lines and stanzas. May contain rhyme and repetition. C) Ordinary writing written with sentences and paragraphs. Dialogue can be placed in quotation marks. Written to entertain, inform or persuade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expressive writing written with lines and stanzas. May contain rhyme and repetition. 3. Who is the person who tells the story in a play? A) Author. B) Narrator. C) Character. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 4. Read the following passage from the end of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.Mama:Yeah ..... they something all right, my children ..... Ruth:Yeah ..... they're something. Let's go, Lena ..... Walter:Y'all come on! These people charges by the hour, you know!Mama:All right, honey ..... go on down. I be down directly.RUTH hesitates, then exits. MAMA stands, at last alone in the living room, her plant on the table before her as the lights start to come down. She looks around at all the walls and ceilings and suddenly, despite herself, while the children call below, a great heaving thing rises in her and she puts her fist to her mouth to stifle it, takes a final desperate look, pulls her coat about her, pats her hat and goes out. The lights dim down. The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last time.What do you learn from the stage directions in this passage that you DON'T learn from the dialogue? A) Mama wants to hide her emotions as she leaves her apartment. B) Walter wants Mama and Ruth to hurry up. C) Ruth is trying to get Mama out the door. D) Mama is very proud of her children but doesn't want to spoil them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mama wants to hide her emotions as she leaves her apartment. 5. In drama, who is the person who provides the audience with information about what is happening in the play? A) Playwright. B) Narrator. C) Setting. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 6. Person, animal, or thing in the story A) Cast. B) Character. C) Director. D) Actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character. 7. What is a common way for a comedy to end? A) Happily-ever-after. B) In a wedding because it wraps up a happy ending with a comment on the possibility of a new society. C) In a conflict resolution and a happy ending. D) With laughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a wedding because it wraps up a happy ending with a comment on the possibility of a new society. 8. It is the place and time where and when an event happens. A) Characters. B) Setting. C) Theme. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 9. What is prose? A) A poetic meter that contains five feet. Each foot is made of an unstressed / stressed pattern. B) Straightforward, ordinary speech. Does not contain rhythm or meter. C) A unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. This device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought. D) Rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Straightforward, ordinary speech. Does not contain rhythm or meter. 10. Sets of bracketed information that tell what the stage looks like and how the characters should move and speak A) Script. B) Dialogue. C) Set. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage directions. 11. Sophocles: A) Wrote Madea and Vulgar tragedies. B) Incorporated 3rd actor to stage & wrote Oedipus rex. C) Put 2nd actor on stage and Made a play about a T rex. D) Playwright & used two actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorporated 3rd actor to stage & wrote Oedipus rex. 12. Playwright's comments that provide information about the dialogue, setting, props, costumes, lighting, sound effects, and action of a play A) Staging. B) Ensemble. C) Monologue. D) Choreography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Staging. 13. When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know A) Dramatic irony. B) Monologue. C) Scene. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic irony. 14. A comment made to the audience or to another character which other characters on stage supposedly don't hear A) Oxymoron. B) Low humor. C) Aside. D) Subtext. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aside. 15. A ..... are the actors in a drama. A) Plot. B) Conflict. C) Setting. D) Cast of characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cast of characters. 16. These objects are used to bring the drama to life. What am I? A) Props. B) Lines. C) Characters. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Props. 17. What are stage directions? *pick the best answer* A) Directions written in a scripts that help the performance along. B) Directions written in parenthesis in a script to guide actors and directors. C) Directions written in a script to guide the actors and actresses in their performance. D) Directions written in parenthesis in a script that tells the director how to direct the actors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Directions written in parenthesis in a script to guide actors and directors. 18. Terpsichore: A) Greek muse of comedy. B) Greek Muse of tragedy. C) Greek Muse of song and dance. D) Greek muse of theatre food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greek Muse of song and dance. 19. A ..... is a story or play that is acted out using characters in situations that imitate real life. A) Biography. B) Drama. C) Director. D) Conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 20. Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes A) Refrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9Drama Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books