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Which play by the American realist Arthur Miller deals with the broken "American dream" of financial success?


A) Death of a Salesman
B) The Crucible
C) A View from the Bridge
D) After the Fall

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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One convention of the realist theatre is that dialogue


A) is very one-sided.
B) is conversation.
C) questions the cosmos.
D) contains frivolous.

E) All of the above
F) A) and D)

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The new hero of realist drama was


A) unquestioningly confident in his or her own might,no matter how great the opposing forces.
B) perplexed and inarticulate in the face of myriad forces,fighting for control of his or her soul and identity.
C) passionate and triumphant in his or her quest for idealist causes.
D) overly concerned about sexual issues.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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The subject matter of naturalistic plays was largely comprised of


A) plant and animal life.
B) conflicts among nations.
C) slice-of-life drama.
D) contrived behaviors due to out of control emotions and relationships that are not in conflict.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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The first productions of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen was immediately accepted by audiences of all kinds.

A) True
B) False

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Besides an aesthetic overhaul,the realist theatre carried another agenda?


A) a rebellion against the contrived manners of the Royal era and the creation of a theatre with a distinctly democratic,anti-Royalist air
B) to hire more actors
C) the reinstatement of the Gods as fully-empowered characters so as to confer metaphysical significance to humanity's otherwise meaningless existence
D) to embarrass modern audiences

E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

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The "theatre of the fourth wall removed" refers to the central convention of realism that


A) the stage was conceived to be the same as life in a real-world setting except that,in the case of the stage,one wall-the proscenium opening-had been removed.
B) the human animal is seen to be like a rat in a maze,bound by the strictures of four symbolic walls: society,family,or economics.
C) the "fourth wall" of the mind creates a frame around human experience just as a fourth wall completes a room.
D) the three walls of Marxist economics,Darwinian biological determinism,and Freudian psychological determinism leave the fourth wall of political oppression absent.

E) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

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Compare and contrast Restoration and realist theatrical styles in terms of their treatment of acting conventions,stage design,and subject matter.

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The "problem" in a "problem play" refers to a moral dilemma;a problem play portrays good and evil in clearly delimited ways to prevent moral ambiguity from creating a perceptual problem.

A) True
B) False

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What sensibility did romantic drama embody?


A) There must be an attempt to reactivate passion,which,critics argued,had been dormant since Shakespeare.
B) Reason and order must prevail.
C) The "dream state" of hypnotism should subsume all elements of reason and passion.
D) Moral education and lecturing is of paramount importance.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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How did Stanislavsky contribute to realist theatre?


A) He brought realist acting to realist plots.
B) He introduced body doubles in scenes of passion.
C) He refused to work with new material.
D) He was a great musician.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Imagine you were one of the actresses in Chekhov's The Three Sisters.You are at a rehearsal with both Chekhov Stanislavsky present.Write out a potential two-page dialogue that might happen between the two of them about your character and how they each want you to play the role.role (Irina,Masha,or Olga).Remember both men are very opinionated but strong and creative.Use your imagination.Do you ever get to share your views-do they listen to you?

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Romanticism emphasized all of the following,EXCEPT


A) free-form picaresque stories.
B) minimal,claustrophobic settings.
C) exotic locales.
D) grotesque heroes.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and B)

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In Chekhov,the pauses,repetitions,and vagueness all show


A) the absence of intellectual commitment to ideas.
B) the rhythms and muddled inanities of natural speech,which are sometimes contrasted by the characters' actions.
C) the absurdity of the universe in which language is just noise without any real meaning.
D) the grammatical problems in the original handwritten script.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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How do everyday objects contribute to Chekhovian realism?


A) Objects like the samovar show the realistic accessories of the living room and bedroom.
B) Objects are peripheral to the lives of the characters.
C) The objects convey qualities of action and character.
D) Objects become weapons and projectiles.

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Compare and contrast realist and naturalistic theatrical styles.Which would you personally find more effective as a theatrical experience? Why?

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In plays including The Sea Gull,The Three Sisters,and Uncle Vanya,the playwright Anton Chekhov draws complex relationships among his characters and develops his plots and themes between the lines.

A) True
B) False

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One offense that caused critics to complain that Ibsen's Ghosts was "loathsome and fetid" and "an open drain" is its exposure of the hypocrisy in Victorian marriage.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following does NOT characterize realist drama?


A) Genres were blended,climaxes flattened,and there was life between the lines.
B) Scenery depicted ordinary living environments that were as messy as their real-life counterparts.
C) Characters were drawn from everyday life.
D) The playwrights renewed the heightened rhetoric of Shakespeare,Sophocles,and Aeschylus.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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What is the significance of the samovar that Tchebutykin presents to Irina for her birthday?


A) A samovar was a typical wedding present and he betrays his unconscious desires to marry Irina.
B) A samovar was brought out only on the occasion of funerals and Tchebutykin foreshadows his impending death.
C) A samovar was a silver anniversary present and inappropriate for a young lady's twentieth birthday gift.
D) A silver samovar was an object permitted only to members of the Tsarist family,and Tchebutykin betrays his class by this gift.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

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