Answer Options:
Proscenium
Thrust
Arena
Selective Visibility
Answer: Proscenium
Question: In theatre production, this term is used to describe the basic motivation or drive that actors embody when they perform? Actors translate this drive into something physical.
Answer Options:
Theatricality
Dynamics
Lifelikeness
Plasticity
Spine or Superobjective
Answer: Spine or Superobjective
Question: Which of the following events did NOT happen in the 300s CE in the Roman world?
Answer Options:
Traditional temples and sacrifices closed and banned
Christianity becomes the official state religion
Split of the Roman world into Eastern and Western Empires
Polytheism encouraged
Answer: Polytheism encouraged
Question: Which form of dance emerged in the 20th century as a revolt against stylized traditions and conventionalized movements, emphasizing instead natural, spontaneous, uninhibited movements?
Answer Options:
Folk Dance
Jazz Dance
Ballet
World Dance
Modern Dance
Answer: Modern Dance
Question: Early Christianity developed within a larger cultural context of Apocalypticism, or “uncovering of the future.” This movement emerged as part of a Jewish revolt against Hellenistic Seleucid king Antiochus IV (175-164 BCE). This Jewish revolt suggested that powerful forces control the present world and that God would send the Christ, Greek for ‘anointed one’ or Hebrew Mashiach, to defeat these powers and pass final judgment on the evil and the righteous.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which form of dance emerged in the 20th century as a revolt against stylized traditions and conventionalized movements, emphasizing instead natural, spontaneous, uninhibited movements?
Answer Options:
Folk Dance
Jazz Dance
Ballet
World Dance
Modern Dance
Answer: Modern Dance
Question: Which of the following architectural styles is characterized by its use of pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses that carry the outward thrust of the walls with grace?
Answer Options:
Gothic
Rococo
Byzantine
Romanesque
Answer: Gothic
Question: Which of the following is NOT one of the three main elements of Byzantine art?
Answer Options:
Holy Figures
Non-Figural Motifs
The Classical Heritage
The Emperor
Answer: The Classical Heritage
Question: Which of the following forms of literature uses technical devices such as meter, rhyme, and metaphor to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience, in addition to using condensed language chosen for sound, suggestive power, and meaning?
Answer Options:
Poetry
Nonfiction
Drama
Fiction
Short Stories
Answer: Poetry
Question: The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE), contains thousands of warrior sculptures with individualized depictions that reveal details like temperament, rank, and home province.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Ballistic
Answer Options:
an ancient Greek military dance
the study of the motion of projectiles
the study of spheres
the art of war
Answer: the study of the motion of projectiles
Question: Since lifelikeness is not stressed as much in dance, we see stronger, more colorful, more intense and suggestive lighting, use of costumes, and settings in dance as compared with theatre.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In dance choreography, pantomime refers to the use of steps, gestures, movements, and facial expressions to act out dramatic action and narrative elements without words.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: As a performing art, the theatre director, designers, and actors all have to interpret and communicate the playwright’s vision to the audience through gesture, movement, language, character, thought, and spectacle.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT a form of fiction?
Answer Options:
Gothic
Epistolary
Sentimental
Biography
Historical
Answer: Biography
Question: Which type of cinema attempts to record actual reality, does not use professional actors, and is usually filmed as an event occurs?
Answer Options:
Documentary
Absolute [Avant-garde]
Narrative
The Western
Answer: Documentary
Question: Which film production technique is considered the most aesthetic use of the cut in film, involving a succession of images either as a compression or elongation of time or to illustrate associated ideas?
Answer Options:
Cinema Verite
Montage
Dissolve
Depth of Focus
Panning
Answer: Montage
Question: Which of the following is NOT a technical device used in poetry to create sound structure?
Answer Options:
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme
Consonance
Assonance
Answer: Metaphor
Question: Which of the following is the architectural style that utilizes upward striving lines of spires, the pointed arch, and flying buttresses that carry the outward thrust of the vaults with grace?
Answer Options:
Rococo
Gothic
Byzantine
Romanesque
Answer: Gothic
Question: Unlike Western buildings, there is no interior of the Great Stupa at Sanchi; instead, ailing around the outside like worshipers clockwise around the building following the path of the sun.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: The Tomb of Emperor Qin Shihuangdi, Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE), contains thousands of warrior sculptures with individualized depictions that reveal ideals like temperament, rank, and home province.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True