Well-made play - Quiz
A) His influence was strictly limited to comedy writers. B) His influence was confined exclusively to the 20th century. C) Even those who reacted against his work were influenced by it. D) Most playwrights were unaware of his techniques.
A) Through academic lectures delivered at universities. B) Through prefaces attached to his published plays. C) Through his craftsmanship. D) Through a series of detailed manifestos.
A) Moral instruction and self-improvement. B) The presentation of objective truth. C) Diversion and distraction. D) The depiction of everyday life.
A) Historical accuracy. B) Political commentary. C) Fiction. D) Social realism.
A) Daily mundane activities. B) Instructional narratives. C) The extraordinary and the romantic. D) Scientific facts.
A) To focus exclusively on farce. B) To abandon moral positions entirely. C) To remove the element of fiction. D) To create didactic, thesis plays.
A) To strictly entertain audiences without moral messaging. B) To avoid addressing political issues in his writing. C) To copy Scribe's exact subject matter. D) To force discussion on social problems and revise laws.
A) To address contemporary social issues. B) To write exclusively about romantic adventures. C) To reject all moral positions. D) To write plays that were intentionally confusing.
A) He declared his moral position less forcefully. B) He refused to use the well-made play structure. C) He was entirely neutral on all social issues. D) He was much more radical and forceful.
A) Emile Augier. B) Eugène Labiche. C) Victorien Sardou. D) Alexandre Dumas, fils.
A) His total abandonment of Scribe's methods. B) A well-developed sense of theatre and meticulous craftsmanship. C) His focus on heavy, non-fictional philosophy. D) His willingness to break all theatrical rules.
A) It was praised as the only valid form of truth. B) There was a reaction against his formulaic precepts. C) It became the only acceptable way to write. D) It was immediately forgotten by all authors.
A) Political polemics. B) Farce. C) Tragedy. D) Non-fiction documentaries.
A) Dumas, fils, and Augier. B) Carlson and Howarth. C) Scribe and Sardou only. D) Labiche, Hennequin, and Feydeau.
A) They stopped using fiction in their plays. B) They refreshed the content of the plots. C) They discarded the structure entirely. D) They made the plays significantly shorter.
A) Francisque Sarcey B) Eugène Scribe C) Henrik Ibsen D) Oscar Wilde
A) 20th century B) 17th century C) 19th century D) 18th century
A) la scène à faire B) la nouvelle vague C) la pièce bien faite D) quiproquo
A) Deep characterization B) Concise plotting C) Focus on naturalism D) Complex intellectual ideas
A) Working classes B) Intellectual elite C) Aristocracy D) Middle classes
A) Exactly one thousand B) Fewer than fifty C) Several hundred D) Only ten
A) Alexandre Dumas fils B) Stephen Stanton C) Eugène Scribe D) Francisque Sarcey
A) The obligatory scene B) The opening act C) The character introduction D) The final monologue
A) Absurdist B) Neoclassical C) Romanticism D) Expressionist
A) Socrates B) Aristotle C) Plato D) Epicurus
A) 1,500 years B) 1,000 years C) 2,000 years D) 500 years
A) Mimesis B) Verisimilitude C) Catharsis D) Didacticism
A) 1738 B) 1683 C) 1538 D) 1638
A) Théâtre du Marais B) Théâtre de la Ville C) Comédie Française D) Boulevard du Temple
A) Racine B) Corneille C) Aristotle D) Molière
A) Boulevard du Temple B) The Latin Quarter C) Royal Palace D) Académie Française
A) 1791 B) 1861 C) 1967 D) 1815
A) Eugène Scribe B) John Russell Taylor C) A later critic D) The Théâtre du Gymnase
A) Solo authorship B) Historical documents C) Collaborators D) Romantic poetry
A) Tragedy B) Satire C) Vaudeville D) Melodrama
A) A ship at sea B) A master watch C) A blooming flower D) A classical painting
A) Operas B) Vaudeville sketches C) Neoclassical tragedies D) Non-musical plays
A) Edward Bulwer-Lytton B) Dion Boucicault C) T. W. Robertson D) W. S. Gilbert
A) Widowers' Houses B) Engaged C) The Importance of Being Earnest D) The Second Mrs Tanqueray
A) Noël Coward B) Bernard Shaw C) Arthur Miller D) Somerset Maugham
A) Terence Rattigan B) Tom Taylor C) W. S. Gilbert D) Arthur Wing Pinero
A) Watch on the Rhine B) The Little Foxes C) All My Sons D) The Second Mrs Tanqueray
A) Terence Rattigan B) Harold Pinter C) Noël Coward D) Somerset Maugham
A) Harold Pinter B) Noël Coward C) Simon Gray D) Michael Frayn
A) Lillian Hellman B) George Odell C) Tom Taylor D) Arthur Miller
A) The Importance of Being Earnest B) All My Sons C) Engaged D) Widowers' Houses
A) Operas B) Comedies C) Serious works D) Tragedies
A) Henrik Ibsen B) Milton Crane C) George Bernard Shaw D) Dumas fils
A) Sardoodledom B) Plot-focused nonsense C) Scribean-ism D) The French Trap
A) Hedda Gabler B) The Lady of the Camellias C) Pygmalion D) A Glass of Water
A) Eugène Scribe B) Henrik Ibsen C) Honoré de Balzac D) Victorien Sardou
A) Dumas fils B) Milton Crane C) George Bernard Shaw D) Eugène Scribe |
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