DRAMA QUESTIONS J.S.

S 3

1. -------selects furniture, draperies, pictures and lamps for decorative quality

and appearance.
a. Scenic Designer
b. Stage Manger
c. Director
d. Theatre Manager

2. The person who opens the theatre doors to admit the audience on instruction
from the director is the ------
a. Director
b. Stage Manager
c. House Manager
d. Stage Hand

3. An account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing is called---

A. Prologue
B. Exposition
C. Explanation
D. Fable

4. A character uses ---when he speaks to the audience rather than the other
characters on stage.
a. Soliloquy
b. Aside
c. Duologue
d. Dialogue
5. ----- is one of the last sets of rehearsals.

a. Pick Up

b. Dry.

c. Paper Tech

d. Open Dress

6. A character who acts as a contrast, thereby bringing out the good or bad
qualities of the protagonist in a play is known as ----

a. Antagonist

b. Protagonist

c. Hero

d. Foil

7. One of the following is NOT a West African playwright.

A. John Pepper Clark.
B. Athol Fugard
C. Joe De’ Graft.
D. Ama Ata Aidoo.

8. A failing of character in the hero of a tragedy that brings about his

downfall is called ---

a. Arrogance

b. Pride

c. Tragic flaw
d. Peripeteia

9. One of the following was NOT an Irish playwright?

A. Oliver Goldsmith.

B. Paula Vogel.

C. John Millington Synge.

D. Oliver Goldsmith.

10. The four main types of theatre stage are ---,---,--- and ---.

11. One of the following was NOT an American playwright?

A. Edward Albee.

B. Arthur Miller.

C. Eugene O’Neil.

D. Christopher Marlowe.

12. The hero in a play is also called the ---

a. Main character

b. Protagonist

c. Antagonist

d. Dramatis personae
13.The adversary of the hero of a drama is known as---
a. Heroine
b. Protagonist
c. Antagonist
d. Character

14.---- is a series of related events that make up the main story in a play.
a. Prologue
b. Plot
c. Diction
d. Setting

15. A piece of writing at the start of a play that introduces the story is called-
a. Epilogue
b. Introduction
c. Prologue
d. Epistle

16.The ---- opens the theatre doors to admit the audience.

a. Ushers
b. Bouncers
c. Stage Manger
d. House Manager

17.A long speech made by a character in a play as a form of entertainment is

known as ….

a. Dialogue
b. Monologue
c. Duologue
d. Prologue
18.The final part of a play in which the strands of the plot are drawn
together and matters are explained or resolved is known as---

a. Epilogue
b. Prologue
c. Denouement
d. Conflict

19. The person who makes decisions on the artistic concept and
interpretation of the play and its staging is called---

a. Stage Manger
b. Stage Director
c. Theatre Director
d. House Manager

20. A type of play in which the protagonist goes through a lot of pains and
agony and which has a very serious action is called…

A. Tragicomedy
B. Comedy
C. Melodrama
D. Tragedy

SECTION B:

1. EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING :

a. Set Designing
b. Curtain Raiser
c. Denouement
d. Stage Hand
e. House Manager