ENGL 102 Quiz Drama Unit

ENGL 102 Quiz: Drama Unit

1. Why does Death use the word cruelly?
2. Which of the following best summarizes the image of the world depicted in the excerpt?
3. In context, the excerpt depicts heaven and hell as __________.
4. Death’s vow to search for “both great and small,” never to relax at any point, means that
5. Choose one word that best describes how GOD feels about those about whom He speaks.
6. According to Plato, a Greek critic, a tragic hero must fall from high to low estate.
7. Oedipus killed Jokasta.
8. According to Aristotle, a hero is not responsible for any criminal act he commits as long as he is not aware of its criminal nature.
9. Everyman states in the play Everyman: “O that is a simple advice indeed! / Gentle fellow, help me in my necessity; / We have loved long, and now I need, / And now, gentle Fellowship, remember me.”
   This excerpt suggests that Everyman and Fellowship have been friends for a long time. They have “loved long.” Fellowship’s unwillingness to help or tarry with Everyman in his time of need (“necessity”) is unexpected and disappointing. This is an example of
10. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex begins in medias res, with earlier events told later.
11. Sophocles was Rome’s most prolific tragic playwright.
12. In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Alas the seed of men./…/ That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?” In context, what does the second line—“That breathe on void and are void”—literally mean?
13. Greek choral odes find their roots in early religious worship of Dionysus.
14. In Greek theater, actors dressed behind a circular curtain.
15. The church was instrumental in breaking up ancient pagan drama.
16. The comedic mask can indicate a sneering cynicism or the lightness of humor.
17. “Quem Quoeritis” is the second oldest extant liturgical drama from England.
18. Everyman’s theme is that life is transitory.
19. A “tragic flaw” is a fault of character such as inordinate ambition.
20. Messenger speaks in Everyman saying: “Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet, / Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep, / When the body lieth in clay.” In context, sin is deceptive because
21. Goods states in the play Everyman: “Who calleth me? Everyman? What hast thou hast! / I lie here in corners, trussed and piled so high, / And in chest I am locked so fast, / Also sacked in bags, thou mayst see with thine eye, / I cannot stir; in packs low I lie. / What would ye have, lightly me say.” This excerpt uses visual imagery to show a pile of material wealth filling every space. By contrast and deductive reasoning, what is lacking?
22. Theater can have value beyond entertainment.
23. Match the following:
24. According to Aristotle, the tragic hero is good and his fall results from an act of
25. Sophocles served Athens as an elected general in the army.
26. In Greek theater, all roles were performed by males.
27. The use of the Greek chorus to divide content is unlike modern theater where the divisions occur via the use of separate acts.
28. The play Oedipus opens with the following speech by Oedipus: “… Children, / I would not have you speak trough messengers, / And therefore I have come myself to hear you- / I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name.” What is Oedipus’ perception of himself in this speech?
29. The play Oedipus opens with the following speech by Oedipus: “… Children,/ I would not have you speak trough messengers, / And therefore I have come myself to hear you- / I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name. / (To a Priest.) You, there, since you are the eldest in the company, / Speak for them all, tell me what preys upon you.” What does Oedipus mean when he says, “tell me what preys upon you”:
30. All actors in Greek drama were male.
31. Everyman is an extant English medieval morality play.
32. Decoration is a possible use for a setting.
33. Jokasta in Oedipus Rex thinks at one point that her baby
34. The play Oedipus closes with the following statement: “Let every man in mankind’s frailty / Consider his last day; and let none / Presume on his good fortune until he find / Life, at his death, a memory without pain.” Choose the best summary of this statement from the following choices:
35. Setting can be used as symbol.
36. Everyman states in the play Everyman: “Alas, shall I have no longer respite? / I may say Death giveth no warning: / To think on thee, it maketh my heart sick, / For all unready is my book of reckoning.” The main claim of this excerpt is that
37. Aeschylus introduces a second character to the performances.
38. According to the messenger in Everyman, the actual title of the play is:
39. Which convention is a device for rolling out onto the stage evidence of actions which cannot be depicted on stage?
40. Teiresias tells Oedipus that he (Oedipus) will be “A blind man/a penniless man, who/will go tapping the strange earth with his staff.”
41. Ancient Greek drama was not original, because the playwright took his plots/story from the familiar myths of the gods.
42. Miracle plays used variety in subject matter and plot.
43. Jokasta is Teiresias’ mother.
44. Which character does not forsake Everyman?
45. One of Sophocles’ contributions was the inclusion of female actors.
46. Othello has a jealous nature.
47. Circumstances set for Othello by Iago combine to defeat Othello.
48. A messenger tells Oedipus that the king’s (Oedipus’s) father, _____, is dead.
49. Miracle plays are religious in nature, while morality plays teach morals via secular themes.
50. Sophocles’ heroes develop into _____ bearers of their fate.