The Theatre Experience 14th Edition By Edwin Wilson – Test Bank

Chapter 12 The Theatre Today

1) Who is the most frequently produced playwright in the United States today?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Lillian Hellman
C) Eugene O’Neill
D) William Shakespeare

Answer: C
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LO: Recall traditional theatre began with the Greeks and moves through contemporary European and American theatre

2) Serious American playwrights emerging in the 1920s and 1930s followed the examples of which European playwright?
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) August Strindberg
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Each of these is correct

Answer: D
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LO: Recall traditional theatre began with the Greeks and moves through contemporary European and American theatre

3) When the text refers to “traditional” theatre, it means theatre from ________.
A) Europe and Asia
B) Europe and America
C) America and Asia
D) Europe and Africa

Answer: B
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LO: Recall traditional theatre began with the Greeks and moves through contemporary European and American theatre

4) Eugene O’Neill wrote Long Day’s Journey into Night about ________.
A) his own dysfunctional family
B) the abolition of slavery in the 19th century
C) a particularly fierce battle in World War I
D) the struggle of a middle-class American salesman

Answer: A
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LO: Identify playwrights who work in the traditional realistic mode

5) Which of the following American playwrights did not write traditional realistic drama in the mid-twentieth century?
A) Arthur Miller
B) David Mamet
C) Edward Albee
D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: B
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LO: Identify playwrights who work in the traditional realistic mode

6) W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan wrote for which kind of musical theatre form?
A) Opera
B) Operetta
C) Revue
D) Book musical

Answer: B
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LO: Identify various forms of musical theatre

7) When a musical is based around an idea rather than a story, it is called a ________.
A) devised musical
B) revival
C) concept musical
D) book musical

Answer: C
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LO: Explain the differences between a book musical and a concept musical

8) The landmark musical, Show Boat, is an example of a ________ musical.
A) book
B) concept
C) devised
D) jukebox

Answer: A
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LO: Explain the differences between a book musical and a concept musical

9) One of the trends in musical theatre since the 1990s has been the increase in ________.
A) revivals of successful past musicals
B) musicals based on films
C) productions focusing on the music of former popular stars and groups
D) all of the choices are correct

Answer: D
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LO: Recall the five trends in musical theatre since 1990

10) In nontraditional theatre, the subject matter and the approach to that subject matter is usually the work of the ________.
A) dramatist
B) director
C) designer
D) dramaturg

Answer: A
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LO: Explain the ways theatre can be nontraditional