Thar Final UPDATED Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
The premiere of which play led to the arrest of both authors and the closure of the theater
center in which it was staged? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- I Will Marry When I'm Ready
In "Myth, Literature and the African World", who does Soyinka identity as the first actor? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ogun
The Kenyan National Theatre has historically been a place for all residents of Nairobi to
engage in theatre and is made accessible to all by the low ticket prices. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False
This Nobel Prize-winning dramatist had to flee Nigeria and critiqued colonialism and racism
in his work. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wole Soyinka
Which of the following performance traditions most reflects colonial influences as European
spirits possess African practitioners causing them to behave like colonial administrators and
soldiers? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- hauka
This dramatist wrote plays about apartheid in South Africa, often in collaboration with black
actors, which violated government bans on race mixing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Athol
Fugard
Wole Soyinka's most famous play was written in 1975 and is titled - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Death and the King's Horseman
Which of the following best describes apartheid? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- South Africa's
official policy of racial separation
Which playwright won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Wole Soyinka
, Which of the following forms was largely improvisational, involved social satire, and
incorporated Bantu music traditions blended with modern jazz? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
township musicals
Beryl McBurnie - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- dancer
Derek Walcott - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dream on Monkey Mountain
Mustapha Matura - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Play Mas
Errol Hill - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Trinadian born playwright
Rex Nettleford and Errol Hill agree that if Caribbean theatre-makers combine music, dance,
and drama in theatre to reflect the way that all these elements are present in Caribbean life
and religions, then the result will end up looking like an American musical or European
opera. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
Martinique playwright Aimé Césaire is credited with starting the [x], an intellectual, political,
and cultural movement dedicated to uniting people of African descent all over the world,
celebrating African traditions, recovering African history, and fighting colonialism and its
effects on black people. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Negritude movement
In Trinidad, [x] is performed every year for the last 100 years in Dow Village. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Ramleela
The [x], a Trinidadian dance, is believed to represent the physical circumstances of enslaved
people during the "Middle Passage". - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- limbo
What is the name of the Jamaican theater company dedicated to using theater as a means of
addressing issues facing women, including poverty and violence? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Sistren Theatre Collective
and CORRECT Answers
The premiere of which play led to the arrest of both authors and the closure of the theater
center in which it was staged? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- I Will Marry When I'm Ready
In "Myth, Literature and the African World", who does Soyinka identity as the first actor? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ogun
The Kenyan National Theatre has historically been a place for all residents of Nairobi to
engage in theatre and is made accessible to all by the low ticket prices. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- False
This Nobel Prize-winning dramatist had to flee Nigeria and critiqued colonialism and racism
in his work. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Wole Soyinka
Which of the following performance traditions most reflects colonial influences as European
spirits possess African practitioners causing them to behave like colonial administrators and
soldiers? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- hauka
This dramatist wrote plays about apartheid in South Africa, often in collaboration with black
actors, which violated government bans on race mixing. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Athol
Fugard
Wole Soyinka's most famous play was written in 1975 and is titled - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Death and the King's Horseman
Which of the following best describes apartheid? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- South Africa's
official policy of racial separation
Which playwright won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Wole Soyinka
, Which of the following forms was largely improvisational, involved social satire, and
incorporated Bantu music traditions blended with modern jazz? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
township musicals
Beryl McBurnie - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- dancer
Derek Walcott - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dream on Monkey Mountain
Mustapha Matura - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Play Mas
Errol Hill - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Trinadian born playwright
Rex Nettleford and Errol Hill agree that if Caribbean theatre-makers combine music, dance,
and drama in theatre to reflect the way that all these elements are present in Caribbean life
and religions, then the result will end up looking like an American musical or European
opera. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
Martinique playwright Aimé Césaire is credited with starting the [x], an intellectual, political,
and cultural movement dedicated to uniting people of African descent all over the world,
celebrating African traditions, recovering African history, and fighting colonialism and its
effects on black people. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Negritude movement
In Trinidad, [x] is performed every year for the last 100 years in Dow Village. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Ramleela
The [x], a Trinidadian dance, is believed to represent the physical circumstances of enslaved
people during the "Middle Passage". - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- limbo
What is the name of the Jamaican theater company dedicated to using theater as a means of
addressing issues facing women, including poverty and violence? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Sistren Theatre Collective
