Multiple Choice Quiz

Choose the best answer.


1	The rise of the middle class during the Restoration led to the birth of:
		A)	comedy of manners
		B)	melodrama
		C)	bourgeois tragedy
		D)	sentimental comedy


2	This type of play mocks the social conventions of the upper class:
		A)	comedy of manners
		B)	melodrama
		C)	bourgeois tragedy
		D)	sentimental comedy


3	She Stoops to Conquer is an example of:
		A)	comedy of manners
		B)	melodrama
		C)	bourgeois tragedy
		D)	sentimental comedy


4	This suspenseful drama came to the forefront during the nineteenth century:
		A)	comedy of manners
		B)	melodrama
		C)	bourgeois tragedy
		D)	sentimental comedy


5	Goethe's Faust and Hugo's Hernani are noted ___________.
		A)	melodramas
		B)	romantic dramas
		C)	well-made plays
		D)	none of the above


6	The Heiress is a 20th century example of a ___________________.
		A)	melodrama
		B)	romantic drama
		C)	well-made play
		D)	none of the above


7	This actor was a partner in the management of the Drury Lane Theater:
		A)	David Garrick
		B)	Edwin Booth
		C)	Charles Macklin
		D)	Edwin Forrest


8	One of the most infamous theater riots occurred outside New York's Astor Place Theater. It grew out of a rivalry between William Charles Macready and __________.
		A)	David Garrick
		B)	Edwin Booth
		C)	Charles Macklin
		D)	Edwin Forrest


9	This actor is famous for his nineteenth century portrayal of Hamlet:
		A)	David Garrick
		B)	Edwin Booth
		C)	Charles Macklin
		D)	Edwin Forrest


10	Richard Wagner's concept of the __________________, or "total art work," influenced twentieth century opera.
		A)	regisseur
		B)	bombastic style
		C)	gesamtkunstwerk
		D)	none of these

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