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1

The following are all traits of theatre except
A)A live event
B)An audience
C)A projectionist
D)Understood conventions
2

Which of the following is an understood convention of theatre?
A)The curtain call
B)The box office
C)The playbill
D)The standing ovation
3

Which of the following is not a sense we use while attending the theatre?
A)Sight
B)Hearing
C)Smell
D)Extrasensory perception
4

Since theatre is a live event it takes place
A)At night
B)In the present tense
C)In the past tense
D)In ornate buildings
5

Who coined the term "willing suspension of disbelief"?
A)Ralph Waldo Emerson
B)Percy Bysshe Shelley
C)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D)Andrew Lloyd Webber
6

When actors and audience pretend that the action on stage is taking place inside four walls, this is called
A)The convention of the fourth wall
B)The willing suspension of disbelief
C)The convention of the real house
D)Virtual time and place
7

A performance is usually divided into segments called
A)Parts and scenes
B)Acts and scenes
C)Acts and parts
D)Parts and quarters
8

Which artist painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the painting at the center of the musical Sunday in the Park with George?
A)Monet
B)Manet
C)Matisse
D)Seurat
9

Which lyricist wrote the lyrics to Sunday in the Park with George?
A)Stephen Sondheim
B)Tim Rice
C)William S. Gilbert
D)Cole Porter
10

The capacity to participate in another's feelings is called
A)Sympathy
B)Pathos
C)Compassion
D)Empathy





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