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What is the Proskenion?
a) A building where the actors could change costume and often provided the backdrop of the play
b) The setting, seeing place, the entire area
c) Circular space at the foot of a hill which was a level structure where the ceremony took place
d) Between the skene and the orchestra, from which developed what we now call the stage

What is the Orchestra?
a) A circular space at the foot of a hill which was a level structure where the ceremony took place
b) The setting, seeing place, the entire area
c) Two broad isles that extended from the orchestra on each side of the theatron
d) Between the skene and the orchestra, from which developed what we now call the stage

What is the Arados
a) A building where the actors could change costume and often provided the backdrop of the play
b) Two broad isles that extended from the orchestra on each side of the theatron
c) Between the skene and the orchestra, from which developed what we now call the stage
d) Circular space at the foot of a hill which was a level structure where the ceremony took place

What type of play made fun of greek legends?
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Satire
d) Horror

Who became the first literary critic?
a) Plato
b) Aristotle
c) Socrates
d) Shakespeare

What is the Skene?
a) The place where the orchestra played
b) The front of the stage
c) The place where the audience sits
d) The dressing room behind stage

What is a tragedy?
a) A happy, light-hearted drama
b) A drama in which the main character suffers a disastrous end
c) A suspenseful drama with a cliff hanger ending
d) A horror themed drama

What are the two types of Greek plays?
a) Tragedy and Drama
b) Romance and Comedy
c) Drama and Romance
d) Comedy and Tragedy

What is a Comedy?
a) A serious play
b) A dramatic play
c) Light, humorous drama with a happy ending
d) A suspenseful drama with a cliff hanger ending

How did actors play many different roles?
a) They wore masks for each different character
b) They had a lot of actors playing different roles
c) They only played one role per actor
d) They performed behind a curtain so that the audience could not see the characters

Who was the first actor?
a) Plato
b) A Chorus
c) Shakespeare
d) Thespis

What are actors called?
a) Actors
b) Thespians
c) Speakers
d) Performers

The earliest plays were stories told by
a) Famous actors
b) A chorus of men
c) A single person
d) A whole festival

Who is the god of Greek wine that religious festivals honored?
a) Dionysus
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Thespis

When did Greek Theater begin?
a) 7,000 years ago
b) 12,000 years ago
c) 2,500 years ago
d) 400 years ago

What is imitation?
a) A religious ceremony performed in ancient tribes that is repeated many times
b) A written record
c) Copying a person's action
d) Cave drawings

Theater is based off of this thing, a thing that results in most of our learning
a) imitating
b) reading
c) writing
d) acting

What is a ritual?
a) Someone who oversees tribal events and holds a high position in the tribe
b) The act of performing a play
c) A tribal dance
d) Something performed repeatedly in exactly the same way.

How have people discovered what they do know about primitive tribes?
a) Through scripts
b) Through word of mouth
c) Through cave drawings
d) Through written records

Why do we know so little about primitive tribes?
a) Because all of the scripts/records were lost
b) Because it was before writing
c) Because they wanted to keep their traditions a secret
d)

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