HUM 101 Theatre Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Graded A+
Identify a difference between dialogue and soliloquy. - Answers Dialogue moves the action forward by
telling people about the importance of the situations in which the actors speak.
How are modern-day proscenium theaters different from the ancient Greek and Elizabethan theaters? -
Answers 1. The Greek and Elizabethan stages are designed in such a way that they involve the audience
more directly spatially than the proscenium theaters do.
2. The Greek and Elizabethan stages are not as explicitly framed as the proscenium theaters.
Match the following elements of a Greek stage with their respective descriptions.
1. The paraskenion
2. The Skene
3. The altar - Answers 1. It provided entrances and exits.
2. It represented a home or palace against which the action was set.
3. It indicated the religious nature of the festival of Dionysus, during which plays were presented.
According to Aristotle, tragedy arouses pity and fear and by doing so produces in people a ___________,
a purging of those feelings, wiping out some of the horror. - Answers Catharsis
What is the term used to describe soliloquies in a play in which a character is not speaking to the
audience? - Answers Aside
Match the following elements of drama with their definitions:
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Diction
4. Thought
5. Spectacle - Answers 1. A series of events leading to disaster for the main characters who undergo
reversals in fortune and understanding but usually ending with a form of enlightenment.
2. The presentation of a person or persons whose actions and the reason for them are more or less
revealed to the audience.
3. The language of a drama, which should be appropriate to the action.
4. The ideas that underlie the plot of a drama, expressed in terms of dialogue and soliloquy.
Identify a difference between dialogue and soliloquy. - Answers Dialogue moves the action forward by
telling people about the importance of the situations in which the actors speak.
How are modern-day proscenium theaters different from the ancient Greek and Elizabethan theaters? -
Answers 1. The Greek and Elizabethan stages are designed in such a way that they involve the audience
more directly spatially than the proscenium theaters do.
2. The Greek and Elizabethan stages are not as explicitly framed as the proscenium theaters.
Match the following elements of a Greek stage with their respective descriptions.
1. The paraskenion
2. The Skene
3. The altar - Answers 1. It provided entrances and exits.
2. It represented a home or palace against which the action was set.
3. It indicated the religious nature of the festival of Dionysus, during which plays were presented.
According to Aristotle, tragedy arouses pity and fear and by doing so produces in people a ___________,
a purging of those feelings, wiping out some of the horror. - Answers Catharsis
What is the term used to describe soliloquies in a play in which a character is not speaking to the
audience? - Answers Aside
Match the following elements of drama with their definitions:
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Diction
4. Thought
5. Spectacle - Answers 1. A series of events leading to disaster for the main characters who undergo
reversals in fortune and understanding but usually ending with a form of enlightenment.
2. The presentation of a person or persons whose actions and the reason for them are more or less
revealed to the audience.
3. The language of a drama, which should be appropriate to the action.
4. The ideas that underlie the plot of a drama, expressed in terms of dialogue and soliloquy.
