This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Drama > Drama – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Drama Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The persons who inhabit the story. A) Protagonist. B) Characters. C) Antagonist. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characters. 2. What is an aside in drama? A) When a character moves aside to give space to another character. B) A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but is supposed to be unheard by the other characters in the play. C) When a character on stage jumps to the audience. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but is supposed to be unheard by the other characters in the play. 3. The stated or suggested time and place of a story is the ..... A) Plot. B) Setting. C) Complication. D) Protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Setting. 4. A traditional story A) Was originally told by word of mouth. B) Was originally written down. C) Only includes a fairy tale and a folktale. D) Is not told anymore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was originally told by word of mouth. 5. Which pair of words have similar definitions? A) Drama, playwright. B) Setting, act. C) Dialogue, soliloquy. D) Act, drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialogue, soliloquy. 6. Includes the cast of characters, stage directions, and dialogue A) Monologue. B) Script. C) Narrator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Script. 7. Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goals. A) Plot. B) Complications. C) Setting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complications. 8. Which of the following is an example of a cast of characters? A) A. 1932, a hotel kitchen. B) B. Head Chef, Chef 2, Chef 3, Hotel Guest. C) C. [the three men thow pies a the Hotel Guest]. D) Head Chef: "So you don't like me pies?". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. Head Chef, Chef 2, Chef 3, Hotel Guest. 9. The character that contrasts the main protagonist. A) Protagonist. B) Antagonist. C) Foil. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foil. 10. What is defined as a speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion. A) Aside. B) Stage directions. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monologue. 11. An introduction to a play, usually spoken by the chorus. A) Scene. B) Line. C) Soliloquy. D) Prologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prologue. 12. How many features does Euphuistic style has? A) One. B) Two and more. C) Seven. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two. 13. The point in s story in which the protagonist faces his/her main conflict and the outcome will be decided one way or another A) Climax. B) Resolution. C) Inciting incident. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 14. What is a text feature of drama? A) List of characters. B) Lines and Stanzas. C) Paragraphs. D) Nonfiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) List of characters. 15. In drama, the PROTAGONIST is ..... A) The "good guy". B) The "bad guy". C) The setting. D) The writer of the drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "good guy". 16. Which piece of literature can you find chapters in? A) Drama. B) Prose. C) Poetry. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 17. People, animals, or objects who do the acting in a play or story. A) Stage. B) Static Characters. C) Characters. D) Flat characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characters. 18. The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Analogy. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 19. What uses dialogue to tell actors what to say? A) Poetry. B) Drama. C) Prose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drama. 20. A drama or a play is a story that is meant to be acted out in front of an audience. "Drama" comes from the Greek word for "action." The action, or the doing, makes the drama. When a play is performed, the actors and the audience are all in the performance space together. This is what separates drama from movies or television:the performance happens live, in front of the audience's eyes.You can also enjoy and analyze a drama in its written form. Just remember while you're reading that the author intended the words to be spoken out loud. This is the key difference between a drama and a story or novel. You can ask yourself, what would this play look like in performance? Why is it important that this piece be performed? What was the playwright trying to say that he or she felt would be communicated best by actors?What can you do while reading a drama to analyze how it's different from a story or novel? A) Imagine what a performance of the play would look like. B) Ask yourself why the playwright wrote it as a play and not a story or novel. C) Remember that you're reading something that was meant to be performed. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres QuizzesDrama Quiz 1Drama Quiz 2Drama Quiz 3Drama Quiz 4Drama Quiz 5Drama Quiz 6Drama Quiz 7Drama Quiz 9Drama Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books