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Lit 1: The Literatures of the Philippines
::)Final Exam
::)Prof. ETM Solmerano
I. Short Story
1. The setting of a story refers to
a) the pattern formed by the events.
b) the way the author presents the main character.
c) the background of the main character.
d) the time and place of the story.
2. A stereotype is
a) a useful stock character.
b) based on cultural assumptions.
c) a good way of defining the main character.
d) always a minor character.
3. A flat character
a) is hard to figure out.
b) stands still during the course of the story and observes the action.
c) doesn’t develop much during the story.
d) is uninteresting.
4. Minor characters are necessary in a story because
a) they aid the main character.
b) they help shape our interpretation of the main character.
c) they add color to the story.
d) they offer interesting commentary on the story.
5. Which of the following sentences would most likely introduce a flashback?
a) “I often remember the events of that day fifteen years ago when I first met Mildred Louise Alton.”
b) “Today begins the first day of classes at the new high school.”
c) “While John crosses the road toward the open field, she waits for him in the back seat of the car.”
d) “Tomorrow we will drive into town to meet with the new lawyer.”
6. In a work with an omniscient point of view,
a) the reader can know the thoughts of all the characters.
b) the reader knows the thoughts of only one character.
c) the author and the narrator are the same person.
d) the narrator actively participates in the action of the story.
7. “Once upon a time there was a very old man who roamed the hills of Brown County looking for all the stray cats and dogs who had lost their way home.” As the first sentence of a story, this is an example of
a) denouement.
b) conflict.
c) rising action.
d) exposition.
8. The focus of a story is
a) the point from which the people and the events are viewed.
b) the lens through which the events are viewed.
c) the central plot element.
d) the narrator’s feeling about the events.
9. The antagonist in a story is
a) the character who suffers the most.
b) the character who opposes the protagonist.
c) the bad guy.
d) the hero.
10. The protagonist in a story is
a) the good guy.
b) the bad guy.
c) the character with the most scenes.
d) the main character.
11. The voice of the story is
a) the dialect used by the narrator.
b) the vocal quality of the main character.
c) the words used to tell the story.
d) the speaker of all the words.
12. The person who tells the story is
a) the main character.
b) the character with the most scenes.
c) the narrator.
d) the author.
13. What is the plot in a work of fiction?
a) The plot is the main idea that the author wants to convey.
b) The plot is the arrangement of the action in a story.
c) The plot is how the story creates mystery.
d) The plot is the most important part any literature.
14. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an oral tale?
a) It may be different at each telling.
b) It exists in only one version.
c) It passes from teller to teller.
d) The parts of the tale differ stylistically.
15. “I knew on that first day that we would be inseparable friends. I also knew that I would have to lie to my mother about our friendship. She would never, even in her later illness, forgive me for that friendship.” This sentence uses which of the following points of view?
a) first-person
b) third-person omniscient
c) third-person limited consciousness
d) second-person
16. A limited focus
a) allows the reader to see the events of a story from the narrator’s perspective.
b) centers on a single person in the story.
c) keeps some things hidden from the reader to increase interest.
d) tells only part of the story and allows the reader to fill in the missing information.
17. What is the conflict in a story?
a) Conflict is the twist or surprise in a storyline.
b) Conflict arises when a reader expects an event to happen and the opposite occurs.
c) Conflict is a struggle of some kind within the story.
d) Conflict is a result of some misunderstanding between the author and the audience.
18. A round character is
a) the major character.
b) the character the reader will like the best.
c) a foil to the flat character.
d) fully developed.
19. A mysterious death, the search for a killer, and a trial that reveals who really committed the crime are part of the __________ of a typical murder mystery.
a) voice
b) moral
c) plot
d) theme
20. What is the climax of a story?
a) The climax is the point at which the events come to a critical moment.
b) The climax is a struggle between characters.
c) The climax is always the last few sentences of a story.
d) The climax is the author’s moral message.
II. Poetry
21. She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh
The difference to me!
These lines illustrate the speaker’s
a) opinion of Lucy’s fame.
b) grief at Lucy’s death.
c) view of Lucy’s influence on her world.
d) feelings about the inevitability of death.
22. Which of the following best describes free verse?
a) poetry that is no longer bound by copyright restrictions
b) poetry that was part of an oral tradition before it was written down
c) poetry that is closely related to folk songs
d) poetry that has no governing pattern of stress or line length
23. Which of the following is an example of metaphor?
a) The red rock pillars stood on the landscape like sentinels guarding the abyss beyond.
b) My brother is our family beacon, guiding us always through difficult times.
c) In that moment, he grieved for the death of his friend as deeply as did Achilles for Hector or Gilgamesh for Enkidu.
d) We arrived in the evening, tired and ready for bed.
24. Which of the following best describes syntax?
a) a section of a poem set apart by extra spacing
b) a fourteen-line poem
c) the order of words in a sentence or line of poetry
d) the process of scanning a poem line by line
25. Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?
a) the parson’s prayer harkened our poor hearts
b) Boom! Crash! Yippie!
c) The dunes rolled toward the beach like waves frozen in time
d) The angry wind beat against the door
26. The speaker is addressing whom in the following lines: “Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
a) the reader
b) himself
c) women in general
d) the object of his desire
27. What situation is expressed in the following lines: “Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold”?
a) The speaker is remembering Swiss ancestors.
b) The speaker is praising saints who were driven from their land.
c) The speaker is asking for justice for martyrs.
d) The speaker is asking for revenge for the dead who have been denied proper burial.
28. Which of the following lines best expresses the setting?
a) “She is dead whose laundry snapped and froze here”
b) “From Water-Tower Hill to the brick prison / The shingle booms”
c) “Nobody wintering now behind / The planked-up windows where she set / Her wheat loaves”
d) “What is it / Survives, grieves grieves. So, over this battered, obstinate spit”
29. The lines “Br-r-r-am-m-m, rackety-am-m, OM, Am: / All-r-r-room, r-r-ram, ala-bas-ter— / Am” from “ What the Motorcycle Said” are an example of
a) dramatic irony.
b) confusion.
c) point of view.
d) onomatopoeia.
30. The speaker of a poem is
a) the poet.
b) a fictional character.
c) the poet’s alter ego.
d) the first person named in the poem.
31. Which of the following best describes blank verse?
a) poetry that is purely for entertainment
b) poetry that doesn’t rhyme but does have strict rhythmic patterns
c) poetry that does rhyme but does not have strict rhythmic patterns
d) poetry that has extra spacing between the stanzas for dramatic effect
32. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the use of rhyme in poetry?
a) to aid in memorizing the poem in oral traditions
b) to reflect the harmony and order of the universe
c) to help poets write in an orderly and controlled form
d) to help the reader foreshadow the content of the next line
33. In general, a poem is meant to be
a) read silently.
b) read aloud.
c) read to others.
d) read in a tranquil setting.
34. Now who of you’d think from an eyeload of me
That once I was a lady as proud as could be?
Oh, I’d never sit down by a tumbledown drunk
If it wasn’t, my dears, for the high cost of junk.
These lines tell the reader that the speaker
a) came from a poor family and had no hope of bettering herself.
b) has hit hard times.
c) was once a successful person.
d) has been brought low by drug addiction.
35. This road—
No one goes down it,
Autumn evening.
This poem is an example of what form?
a) sonnet
b) villanelle
c) terza rima
d) haiku
36. To understand the setting of a poem, a reader has to understand
a) the poet’s time and place.
b) the speaker’s motivation.
c) the social and political background of the poet.
d) the characters’ time and place.
37. Which of the following is a traditional symbol representing the nature of beauty?
a) a star
b) a winter landscape
c) a rose
d) a forest
38. To scan a poem means to
a) read it quickly.
b) look over the vocabulary.
c) identify its metrical patterns.
d) divide it into sections.
39. Which of the following is NOT true of a sonnet?
a) It is always sixteen lines long.
b) It was very important in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
c) It is usually written in iambic pentameter.
d) It is typically printed as if it were one stanza.
40. In talking about poems, diction refers to
a) the eloquence of the poet.
b) the clarity of expression.
c) the poet’s word choice.
d) the narrator’s accent.
41. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.” This description is an example of
a) personification.
b) onomatopoeia.
c) simile.
d) irony.
42. What is a symbol in literature?
a) a mnemonic device
b) any sensory detail used to describe an object
c) a person, place, or object that simultaneously represents itself and figuratively “stands for” something else
d) a direct comparison between two unlike things with a verbal signal
43. The __________ of a poem is the basic rhythm created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
a) meter
b) rhyme
c) scansion
d) syntax
44. To be considered a poem, a literary work must
a) rhyme.
b) tell a story.
c) express profound emotion.
d) have rhythm.
45. Which of the following statements about poetry is true?
a) Poetry must have rhyme and a clear rhythm.
b) The language of poetry is almost always visual.
c) Poets try to avoid figurative language whenever possible.
d) If a poem is short, it will have only one theme.
46. “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.” This reference to Hamlet is an example of
a) a simile.
b) discursive structure.
c) the sonnet form.
d) an allusion.
47. In talking about poems, dramatic irony refers to:
a) the difference between what the reader expects and what happens.
b) the intrinsic drama of the situation.
c) situational sarcasm.
d) an emotionally charged situation.
48. Which of the following descriptions includes personification?
a) “I know now how life is cheap as dirt”
b) “The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet”
c) “my dog-dead life”
d) “there is old filth everywhere”
49. The tone of a poem is meant to express
a) the subject of the poem.
b) what the poet thinks about the subject.
c) an attitude or feeling about the theme.
d) the way the reader feels about the poem.
50. To understand the situation of a poem, the reader needs to know
a) the speaker’s time and place.
b) the poet’s motivation.
c) the characters’ motivations.
d) what happens and why it happens.
III. Drama
51. Unity of time refers to
a) the amount of time during which actors are on stage from beginning to end.
b) lighting transitions that signal a flashback or other time shift.
c) the limitation of the play’s action to a short span of time, usually no more than a day.
d) the division of the acting area into several spaces, with each of them representing a different time in the action.
52. Which of the following is NOT part of the set of a play?
a) the objects used on the stage
b) the design
c) the decoration
d) the scenery
53. Comic relief is
a) a light moment in a serious play.
b) the resolution of the conflict in a comedy.
c) the intermission.
d) the verbal mistakes made by an actor.
54. Which of the following names a dramatic device by which the words of a character acquire a meaning that is the opposite of their literal meaning?
a) underplot
b) turning point
c) antagonism
d) verbal irony
55. A motif is
a) the protagonist’s rationale for taking an action.
b) a recurrent idea or thread of thought.
c) one of the classical unities.
d) a staging device in which an actor enters from the rear of the auditorium.
56. The conflict in a typical dramatic plot progresses through which of the following stages?
a) introduction of characters, development of characters, resolution of conflict
b) introduction, climax, resolution
c) identification of the conflict, protagonist’s part in the conflict, antagonist’s reaction, resolution
d) exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion
57. Which of the following is a major characteristic of tragedy?
a) Most of the characters die.
b) The play is about conflict.
c) The protagonist moves from happiness to misery.
d) The protagonist is the one most affected by the conflict.
58. The theme of a play is
a) clearly described by one of the characters.
b) described in the directions from the playwright to the director.
c) the result of the tone of the play.
d) inferred by the viewer from the action.
59. _________________ is when the action of a play takes a surprising turn, often the opposite of what the characters expect to happen.
a) Coincidence
b) Dramatic irony
c) Situational complexity
d) Theatrical inversion
60. Which of the following is a major characteristic of comedy?
a) No character is injured.
b) The action resolves in favor of the protagonist.
c) The antagonist is defeated.
d) The audience laughs.
61. In terms of drama, character refers to
a) the actor.
b) the moral structure of a person.
c) a fictional person who is part of a play.
d) the director’s interpretation of the play.
62. Farces are plays that are
a) full of broad humor and physical antics.
b) plays within plays.
c) biting social commentaries.
d) tragedies with a light side.
63. Which of the following is most likely to deal with the societal roles of characters and to end with the characters assuming their proper roles?
a) a tragedy
b) a comedy
c) a pastoral play
d) a revenge play
64. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
a) A tragic hero is a basically evil character who causes suffering to others.
b) A tragic hero is basically evil but has one or two redeeming qualities.
c) A tragic hero is basically good or noble but has a weakness or limitation.
d) A tragic hero is a completely good character who rescues a society from danger.
65. An affective response to a play is
a) how you judge it.
b) how you understand it.
c) how you respond to it emotionally.
d) how you want to see or read it again.
::)Final Exam
::)Prof. ETM Solmerano
I. Short Story
1. The setting of a story refers to
a) the pattern formed by the events.
b) the way the author presents the main character.
c) the background of the main character.
d) the time and place of the story.
2. A stereotype is
a) a useful stock character.
b) based on cultural assumptions.
c) a good way of defining the main character.
d) always a minor character.
3. A flat character
a) is hard to figure out.
b) stands still during the course of the story and observes the action.
c) doesn’t develop much during the story.
d) is uninteresting.
4. Minor characters are necessary in a story because
a) they aid the main character.
b) they help shape our interpretation of the main character.
c) they add color to the story.
d) they offer interesting commentary on the story.
5. Which of the following sentences would most likely introduce a flashback?
a) “I often remember the events of that day fifteen years ago when I first met Mildred Louise Alton.”
b) “Today begins the first day of classes at the new high school.”
c) “While John crosses the road toward the open field, she waits for him in the back seat of the car.”
d) “Tomorrow we will drive into town to meet with the new lawyer.”
6. In a work with an omniscient point of view,
a) the reader can know the thoughts of all the characters.
b) the reader knows the thoughts of only one character.
c) the author and the narrator are the same person.
d) the narrator actively participates in the action of the story.
7. “Once upon a time there was a very old man who roamed the hills of Brown County looking for all the stray cats and dogs who had lost their way home.” As the first sentence of a story, this is an example of
a) denouement.
b) conflict.
c) rising action.
d) exposition.
8. The focus of a story is
a) the point from which the people and the events are viewed.
b) the lens through which the events are viewed.
c) the central plot element.
d) the narrator’s feeling about the events.
9. The antagonist in a story is
a) the character who suffers the most.
b) the character who opposes the protagonist.
c) the bad guy.
d) the hero.
10. The protagonist in a story is
a) the good guy.
b) the bad guy.
c) the character with the most scenes.
d) the main character.
11. The voice of the story is
a) the dialect used by the narrator.
b) the vocal quality of the main character.
c) the words used to tell the story.
d) the speaker of all the words.
12. The person who tells the story is
a) the main character.
b) the character with the most scenes.
c) the narrator.
d) the author.
13. What is the plot in a work of fiction?
a) The plot is the main idea that the author wants to convey.
b) The plot is the arrangement of the action in a story.
c) The plot is how the story creates mystery.
d) The plot is the most important part any literature.
14. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an oral tale?
a) It may be different at each telling.
b) It exists in only one version.
c) It passes from teller to teller.
d) The parts of the tale differ stylistically.
15. “I knew on that first day that we would be inseparable friends. I also knew that I would have to lie to my mother about our friendship. She would never, even in her later illness, forgive me for that friendship.” This sentence uses which of the following points of view?
a) first-person
b) third-person omniscient
c) third-person limited consciousness
d) second-person
16. A limited focus
a) allows the reader to see the events of a story from the narrator’s perspective.
b) centers on a single person in the story.
c) keeps some things hidden from the reader to increase interest.
d) tells only part of the story and allows the reader to fill in the missing information.
17. What is the conflict in a story?
a) Conflict is the twist or surprise in a storyline.
b) Conflict arises when a reader expects an event to happen and the opposite occurs.
c) Conflict is a struggle of some kind within the story.
d) Conflict is a result of some misunderstanding between the author and the audience.
18. A round character is
a) the major character.
b) the character the reader will like the best.
c) a foil to the flat character.
d) fully developed.
19. A mysterious death, the search for a killer, and a trial that reveals who really committed the crime are part of the __________ of a typical murder mystery.
a) voice
b) moral
c) plot
d) theme
20. What is the climax of a story?
a) The climax is the point at which the events come to a critical moment.
b) The climax is a struggle between characters.
c) The climax is always the last few sentences of a story.
d) The climax is the author’s moral message.
II. Poetry
21. She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh
The difference to me!
These lines illustrate the speaker’s
a) opinion of Lucy’s fame.
b) grief at Lucy’s death.
c) view of Lucy’s influence on her world.
d) feelings about the inevitability of death.
22. Which of the following best describes free verse?
a) poetry that is no longer bound by copyright restrictions
b) poetry that was part of an oral tradition before it was written down
c) poetry that is closely related to folk songs
d) poetry that has no governing pattern of stress or line length
23. Which of the following is an example of metaphor?
a) The red rock pillars stood on the landscape like sentinels guarding the abyss beyond.
b) My brother is our family beacon, guiding us always through difficult times.
c) In that moment, he grieved for the death of his friend as deeply as did Achilles for Hector or Gilgamesh for Enkidu.
d) We arrived in the evening, tired and ready for bed.
24. Which of the following best describes syntax?
a) a section of a poem set apart by extra spacing
b) a fourteen-line poem
c) the order of words in a sentence or line of poetry
d) the process of scanning a poem line by line
25. Which of the following contains an example of alliteration?
a) the parson’s prayer harkened our poor hearts
b) Boom! Crash! Yippie!
c) The dunes rolled toward the beach like waves frozen in time
d) The angry wind beat against the door
26. The speaker is addressing whom in the following lines: “Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
a) the reader
b) himself
c) women in general
d) the object of his desire
27. What situation is expressed in the following lines: “Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold”?
a) The speaker is remembering Swiss ancestors.
b) The speaker is praising saints who were driven from their land.
c) The speaker is asking for justice for martyrs.
d) The speaker is asking for revenge for the dead who have been denied proper burial.
28. Which of the following lines best expresses the setting?
a) “She is dead whose laundry snapped and froze here”
b) “From Water-Tower Hill to the brick prison / The shingle booms”
c) “Nobody wintering now behind / The planked-up windows where she set / Her wheat loaves”
d) “What is it / Survives, grieves grieves. So, over this battered, obstinate spit”
29. The lines “Br-r-r-am-m-m, rackety-am-m, OM, Am: / All-r-r-room, r-r-ram, ala-bas-ter— / Am” from “ What the Motorcycle Said” are an example of
a) dramatic irony.
b) confusion.
c) point of view.
d) onomatopoeia.
30. The speaker of a poem is
a) the poet.
b) a fictional character.
c) the poet’s alter ego.
d) the first person named in the poem.
31. Which of the following best describes blank verse?
a) poetry that is purely for entertainment
b) poetry that doesn’t rhyme but does have strict rhythmic patterns
c) poetry that does rhyme but does not have strict rhythmic patterns
d) poetry that has extra spacing between the stanzas for dramatic effect
32. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the use of rhyme in poetry?
a) to aid in memorizing the poem in oral traditions
b) to reflect the harmony and order of the universe
c) to help poets write in an orderly and controlled form
d) to help the reader foreshadow the content of the next line
33. In general, a poem is meant to be
a) read silently.
b) read aloud.
c) read to others.
d) read in a tranquil setting.
34. Now who of you’d think from an eyeload of me
That once I was a lady as proud as could be?
Oh, I’d never sit down by a tumbledown drunk
If it wasn’t, my dears, for the high cost of junk.
These lines tell the reader that the speaker
a) came from a poor family and had no hope of bettering herself.
b) has hit hard times.
c) was once a successful person.
d) has been brought low by drug addiction.
35. This road—
No one goes down it,
Autumn evening.
This poem is an example of what form?
a) sonnet
b) villanelle
c) terza rima
d) haiku
36. To understand the setting of a poem, a reader has to understand
a) the poet’s time and place.
b) the speaker’s motivation.
c) the social and political background of the poet.
d) the characters’ time and place.
37. Which of the following is a traditional symbol representing the nature of beauty?
a) a star
b) a winter landscape
c) a rose
d) a forest
38. To scan a poem means to
a) read it quickly.
b) look over the vocabulary.
c) identify its metrical patterns.
d) divide it into sections.
39. Which of the following is NOT true of a sonnet?
a) It is always sixteen lines long.
b) It was very important in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
c) It is usually written in iambic pentameter.
d) It is typically printed as if it were one stanza.
40. In talking about poems, diction refers to
a) the eloquence of the poet.
b) the clarity of expression.
c) the poet’s word choice.
d) the narrator’s accent.
41. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.” This description is an example of
a) personification.
b) onomatopoeia.
c) simile.
d) irony.
42. What is a symbol in literature?
a) a mnemonic device
b) any sensory detail used to describe an object
c) a person, place, or object that simultaneously represents itself and figuratively “stands for” something else
d) a direct comparison between two unlike things with a verbal signal
43. The __________ of a poem is the basic rhythm created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
a) meter
b) rhyme
c) scansion
d) syntax
44. To be considered a poem, a literary work must
a) rhyme.
b) tell a story.
c) express profound emotion.
d) have rhythm.
45. Which of the following statements about poetry is true?
a) Poetry must have rhyme and a clear rhythm.
b) The language of poetry is almost always visual.
c) Poets try to avoid figurative language whenever possible.
d) If a poem is short, it will have only one theme.
46. “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.” This reference to Hamlet is an example of
a) a simile.
b) discursive structure.
c) the sonnet form.
d) an allusion.
47. In talking about poems, dramatic irony refers to:
a) the difference between what the reader expects and what happens.
b) the intrinsic drama of the situation.
c) situational sarcasm.
d) an emotionally charged situation.
48. Which of the following descriptions includes personification?
a) “I know now how life is cheap as dirt”
b) “The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet”
c) “my dog-dead life”
d) “there is old filth everywhere”
49. The tone of a poem is meant to express
a) the subject of the poem.
b) what the poet thinks about the subject.
c) an attitude or feeling about the theme.
d) the way the reader feels about the poem.
50. To understand the situation of a poem, the reader needs to know
a) the speaker’s time and place.
b) the poet’s motivation.
c) the characters’ motivations.
d) what happens and why it happens.
III. Drama
51. Unity of time refers to
a) the amount of time during which actors are on stage from beginning to end.
b) lighting transitions that signal a flashback or other time shift.
c) the limitation of the play’s action to a short span of time, usually no more than a day.
d) the division of the acting area into several spaces, with each of them representing a different time in the action.
52. Which of the following is NOT part of the set of a play?
a) the objects used on the stage
b) the design
c) the decoration
d) the scenery
53. Comic relief is
a) a light moment in a serious play.
b) the resolution of the conflict in a comedy.
c) the intermission.
d) the verbal mistakes made by an actor.
54. Which of the following names a dramatic device by which the words of a character acquire a meaning that is the opposite of their literal meaning?
a) underplot
b) turning point
c) antagonism
d) verbal irony
55. A motif is
a) the protagonist’s rationale for taking an action.
b) a recurrent idea or thread of thought.
c) one of the classical unities.
d) a staging device in which an actor enters from the rear of the auditorium.
56. The conflict in a typical dramatic plot progresses through which of the following stages?
a) introduction of characters, development of characters, resolution of conflict
b) introduction, climax, resolution
c) identification of the conflict, protagonist’s part in the conflict, antagonist’s reaction, resolution
d) exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion
57. Which of the following is a major characteristic of tragedy?
a) Most of the characters die.
b) The play is about conflict.
c) The protagonist moves from happiness to misery.
d) The protagonist is the one most affected by the conflict.
58. The theme of a play is
a) clearly described by one of the characters.
b) described in the directions from the playwright to the director.
c) the result of the tone of the play.
d) inferred by the viewer from the action.
59. _________________ is when the action of a play takes a surprising turn, often the opposite of what the characters expect to happen.
a) Coincidence
b) Dramatic irony
c) Situational complexity
d) Theatrical inversion
60. Which of the following is a major characteristic of comedy?
a) No character is injured.
b) The action resolves in favor of the protagonist.
c) The antagonist is defeated.
d) The audience laughs.
61. In terms of drama, character refers to
a) the actor.
b) the moral structure of a person.
c) a fictional person who is part of a play.
d) the director’s interpretation of the play.
62. Farces are plays that are
a) full of broad humor and physical antics.
b) plays within plays.
c) biting social commentaries.
d) tragedies with a light side.
63. Which of the following is most likely to deal with the societal roles of characters and to end with the characters assuming their proper roles?
a) a tragedy
b) a comedy
c) a pastoral play
d) a revenge play
64. Which of the following statements is most likely to be true?
a) A tragic hero is a basically evil character who causes suffering to others.
b) A tragic hero is basically evil but has one or two redeeming qualities.
c) A tragic hero is basically good or noble but has a weakness or limitation.
d) A tragic hero is a completely good character who rescues a society from danger.
65. An affective response to a play is
a) how you judge it.
b) how you understand it.
c) how you respond to it emotionally.
d) how you want to see or read it again.