Theater pre and post test

How is drama different from other kinds of fiction?

• Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings.

• Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots.

• Drama has more characters than other kinds of fictions.

• Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience.

The ​ (a)   is the time and place in which a story occurs. It can be in the past, present, or future. Examples include a classroom, the inside of a car during a traffic jam, or Mars.

• setting
• location
• character
• period

(a)   tells actors how to move.

• Blocking
• stage directions
• people
• lighting

Plays are broken up into ​_ and _ .

• acts, scenes

• books, chapters

• acts, chapters

• scenes, subscenes

Type in TRUE or FALSE

A character has to say the stage directions out loud for the audience.

• True

• False

In a play, how does a monologue help assist the reader or audience understand what is happening in the drama?

• It conveys ALL of the characters' thoughts.

• It doesn't help the reader or audience at all.

• All of the Above

• It conveys a SINGLE character's thoughts and reveals the internal conflict.

Number 1 is which stage direction?

• DR- Down Stage Right

• DL- Down Stage Left

• UR- Up Stage Right

• UL- Up Stage Left

Number 2, is what stage direction?

• UC- Up Stage Center

• C- Center Stage

• DC- Down Stage Center

Number 3, is what stage direction?

• UL- Up Stage Left

• DL- Down Stage Left

• UR- Up Stage Right

• DR- Down Stage Right

Number 4, is what stage direction?

• C- Center Stage

• CR- Center Right

• CL- Center Left