SARAH MICHELLE CRASH COURSE PRACTICE TEST PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔In a Roman play who were each of these types of characters: Adulescens, Virgo,
Meretrix, Senex, Servus, Leno, Miles Gloriosus, Parasite? - ✔✔Adulescens: hero,
Virgo: girl next door, Meretrix: prostitute, Senex: father/old man, Servus: wily slave,
Leno: the pimp, Miles Gloriosus: bragging soldier, Parasite: slave/sponge
✔✔Shakespeare borrowed from Plautus when he wrote what play? - ✔✔The Comedy of
Errors
✔✔Seneca's tragedies had a BLANK act structure. - ✔✔V (five)
✔✔Emperor Constantine legalized what? - ✔✔Christianity
✔✔533 CE is the date of the last recorded BLANK in Rome - ✔✔theatrical performance
✔✔We know a fair amount about theater in the Byzantine Empire because many of their
scripts were well preserved. TRUE of FALSE. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Most scholars believe that the resurgence of drama began as a part of the BLANK
sometime in the 10th century CE. - ✔✔Easter service
✔✔What does Hrotsvitha's name mean? - ✔✔strong honor
✔✔Hrotsvitha wanted to write plays that were both BLANK and BLANK - ✔✔funny and
holy
✔✔Closet dramas are plays that are meant to be read but not performed. TRUE or
FALSE. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Ordo Vitutum is "the only liturgical drama that survives alongside its BLANK." -
✔✔music
✔✔When liturgical drama outgrew the churches it was being performed in, where did it
move to? - ✔✔outside
✔✔In what century did drama move away from being a church and liturgical event to
being completely secular? - ✔✔13th century
✔✔BLANK are an ambitious genre of medieval drama that depicts the whole history of
the Christian universe, starting with the creation of the world and ending with the death
and resurrection of christ. - ✔✔cycle plays
, ✔✔What were the miracle plays about? - ✔✔the lives of saints
✔✔Humanism is "the idea that earthly life isn't just a vale of BLANK that might lead to
heaven if you're good, but maybe worthy in and of itself." - ✔✔tears
✔✔Name one field (besides theater) that saw advancement in the Renaissance due to
this new humanism mindset. - ✔✔Human Achievement - music, medicine, visual arts,
and physics
✔✔Neoclassical plays are called that because they are both BLANK and BLANK. -
✔✔classical and new
✔✔What part of the classical comedy did Italian writers remove? - ✔✔choruses
✔✔In 1558, Elizabeth 1 "cracked down on religious and BLANK plays." - ✔✔political
✔✔The earliest plays of the English Renaissance were based on the work of BLANK
and BLANK - ✔✔Plautus and Terence
✔✔Why weren't early English Renaissance plays performed in theaters? -
✔✔freestanding permanent theaters didn't exist yet
✔✔BLANK influenced the work of BLANK - ✔✔Christopher "Kit" Marlowe influenced the
work of Shakespeare
✔✔We know when Shakespeare was born because of his Baptismal record. TRUE or
FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Why was his marriage to his wife scandalous? - ✔✔she was 8 years older than him
and 6 months pregnant
✔✔Why did the theaters in London close? - ✔✔plague
✔✔Shakespeare died in Stratford, in the year 1616, at the age of BLANK. - ✔✔52
✔✔Actors specialized in a "type" of character. TRUE or FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔In Shakespeare's time, when were plays performed? - ✔✔in the afternoon
✔✔Early performances of Shakespeare's plays utilized a lot of props. TRUE or FALSE -
✔✔TRUE
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔In a Roman play who were each of these types of characters: Adulescens, Virgo,
Meretrix, Senex, Servus, Leno, Miles Gloriosus, Parasite? - ✔✔Adulescens: hero,
Virgo: girl next door, Meretrix: prostitute, Senex: father/old man, Servus: wily slave,
Leno: the pimp, Miles Gloriosus: bragging soldier, Parasite: slave/sponge
✔✔Shakespeare borrowed from Plautus when he wrote what play? - ✔✔The Comedy of
Errors
✔✔Seneca's tragedies had a BLANK act structure. - ✔✔V (five)
✔✔Emperor Constantine legalized what? - ✔✔Christianity
✔✔533 CE is the date of the last recorded BLANK in Rome - ✔✔theatrical performance
✔✔We know a fair amount about theater in the Byzantine Empire because many of their
scripts were well preserved. TRUE of FALSE. - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Most scholars believe that the resurgence of drama began as a part of the BLANK
sometime in the 10th century CE. - ✔✔Easter service
✔✔What does Hrotsvitha's name mean? - ✔✔strong honor
✔✔Hrotsvitha wanted to write plays that were both BLANK and BLANK - ✔✔funny and
holy
✔✔Closet dramas are plays that are meant to be read but not performed. TRUE or
FALSE. - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Ordo Vitutum is "the only liturgical drama that survives alongside its BLANK." -
✔✔music
✔✔When liturgical drama outgrew the churches it was being performed in, where did it
move to? - ✔✔outside
✔✔In what century did drama move away from being a church and liturgical event to
being completely secular? - ✔✔13th century
✔✔BLANK are an ambitious genre of medieval drama that depicts the whole history of
the Christian universe, starting with the creation of the world and ending with the death
and resurrection of christ. - ✔✔cycle plays
, ✔✔What were the miracle plays about? - ✔✔the lives of saints
✔✔Humanism is "the idea that earthly life isn't just a vale of BLANK that might lead to
heaven if you're good, but maybe worthy in and of itself." - ✔✔tears
✔✔Name one field (besides theater) that saw advancement in the Renaissance due to
this new humanism mindset. - ✔✔Human Achievement - music, medicine, visual arts,
and physics
✔✔Neoclassical plays are called that because they are both BLANK and BLANK. -
✔✔classical and new
✔✔What part of the classical comedy did Italian writers remove? - ✔✔choruses
✔✔In 1558, Elizabeth 1 "cracked down on religious and BLANK plays." - ✔✔political
✔✔The earliest plays of the English Renaissance were based on the work of BLANK
and BLANK - ✔✔Plautus and Terence
✔✔Why weren't early English Renaissance plays performed in theaters? -
✔✔freestanding permanent theaters didn't exist yet
✔✔BLANK influenced the work of BLANK - ✔✔Christopher "Kit" Marlowe influenced the
work of Shakespeare
✔✔We know when Shakespeare was born because of his Baptismal record. TRUE or
FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Why was his marriage to his wife scandalous? - ✔✔she was 8 years older than him
and 6 months pregnant
✔✔Why did the theaters in London close? - ✔✔plague
✔✔Shakespeare died in Stratford, in the year 1616, at the age of BLANK. - ✔✔52
✔✔Actors specialized in a "type" of character. TRUE or FALSE - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔In Shakespeare's time, when were plays performed? - ✔✔in the afternoon
✔✔Early performances of Shakespeare's plays utilized a lot of props. TRUE or FALSE -
✔✔TRUE
