This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A speech made by one character that tells information to the audience. A) Dialogue. B) Drama. C) Foil. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 2. What is the setting 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: B) The time and place in which a story occurs; It can be in the past, present, or future. 3. Speech between characters in a play is called A) Dialogue. B) Lines. C) Script. D) Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 4. What do we call the author of a drama? A) Author. B) Speaker. C) Player. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Playwright. 5. A drama where the main character dies is called a ..... A) Sad story. B) Drama. C) Tragedy. D) Coincidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 6. What is the meaning of dialogue? A) Conversations between two or more characters. B) The words in parentheses. C) A struggle that takes place in a story. D) The gestures an actor uses in a drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conversations between two or more characters. 7. A situation the audience knows about but characters on stage do not A) Aside. B) Foreboding. C) Dramatic irony. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 8. Conversation between two characters is called ..... A) A monologue. B) A discussion. C) A diologue. D) A quotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A diologue. 9. What is written so it can be put on as a play? A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Drama. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drama. 10. The group of people that act as the characters in a drama. A) Cast. B) Description. C) Dialogue. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast. 11. ..... is a long speech that is spoken by a single character. A) Scenes. B) Props. C) Dialogue. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 12. When a character says something short to the audience that the other characters on stage DO NOT hear A) Soliloquy. B) Aside. C) Dialogue. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aside. 13. There are several different parts of a play text or script. Plays are usually divided into parts called acts. Shakespeare wrote all his plays in five acts, while most modern plays have one, two or three acts. The time between acts is called intermission. Acts can be further broken up into pieces called scenes. Scenes are a little like chapters in a book:they usually show action that happens all in the same place at the same time. A change in scene can signal a change in location or a change in time. The playwright will usually put all the information you need to know about the setting and time at the beginning of the scene or act. Make sure to read everything so that you know when and where a scene or act takes place.Imagine that you work for a theater company. The director tells you that she wants to produce a play with NO INTERMISSION. Which play would you suggest? A) Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which has five acts and takes place in different locations in and around Elsinore Castle. B) "Master Harold" and the Boys by South African playwright Athol Fugard, which takes place in one location and in one span of time. C) Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, which has two acts, each with multiple scenes, and covers many years of Alexander Hamilton's life. D) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, which has three acts that take place in either a London apartment or an English country house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Master Harold" and the Boys by South African playwright Athol Fugard, which takes place in one location and in one span of time. 14. What is the term for a major section of the play? A) Scene. B) Act. C) Set. D) Script. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Act. 15. A(n) ..... is the story told within a drama. A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Scene. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 16. Slapstick comedy is . . . A) A sophisticated comedy; often includes satire and sarcasm. B) A boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes. C) Laugh nervously. D) Witty language used to convey insults or scorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes. 17. A character whose personality and attitude contrasts sharply with those of another character; used to highlight both characters' traits. Often the protagonist and antagonist A) Aside. B) Tragic hero. C) Soliloquy. D) Foil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foil. 18. The playwright's instructions to the director, performers, and stage crew. Usually set in italics and explain how characters move and speak . A) Dialogue. B) Monologue. C) Soli. D) Stage Directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stage Directions. 19. A major division in a drama. A) Act. B) Scene. C) Dialogue. D) Stage directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Act. 20. Cast of Characters A) List of people who perform in the play-includes descriptions and motivations. B) Information given in dialogue or at the beginning that explains to the performers and audience how the play should be performed. C) A character who has the opposite characteristics of the protagonist in order to highlight their good qualities. D) A speech made by one character that tells information to the audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) List of people who perform in the play-includes descriptions and motivations. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 8Drama Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books