Deck 12: Then and Now Version Non-Western Theatre

Question 1

Theatre probably originated first in _____.

A) Europe
B) The Americas
C) Antarctica
D) Oceania
E) Africa

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Who was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Answer 2

Wole Soyinka

Question 3

What is modern African theatre that combines traditional African ritual and Western-style drama is called?

A) Morocco Mimes
B) Natyasastra
C) Sarzan
D) Total Theatre
E) A.R.W.S.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which type of opera used an orchestra made up of gongs, cymbals, lutes, rattles, drums, castanets, and a two-string violin?

A) Japanese Opera
B) Covent Garden Opera
C) Western Opera
D) Peking Opera

Question 5

African theatre is usually divided into three periods. Which of these periods is the oldest?

Question 6

Of the three periods of African theatre which is sometimes called total theatre?

Question 7

Sanskrit drama is a part of the traditional theatre of _____.

A) India
B) Nigeria
C) Japan
D) China
E) Morocco

Question 8

In this type of Japanese theatre the audience is expected to actively participate. They will call out an actor's name if they like a particular moment.

A) Juuichicho
B) Deshi
C) Kabuki
D) Dangire
E) Onnagata

Question 9

In many ancient Islamic countries acting was outlawed. As a result, what type of theatre became popular?

A) Córdoba missionary plays
B) Morality plays
C) Shadow plays
D) Actorless dramas

Question 10

Many scholars agree that theatre grew out of…

A) Aristotle's writing
B) Bronze Age kings
C) Political speeches
D) Ritual
E) Scripted weddings

Question 11

Theatre that comes from Africa, India, China, Japan, and the Arab world is often called. . .

Question 12

Which type of Japanese theatre grew out of the dance-prayers of Buddhist priests?

A) Natyasastra
B) Noh
C) Yoshimitsu
D) Shakuntala
E) Sanskrit

Question 13

Which type of early African theatre uses acting, music, storytelling, poetry, dance, costumes, and lots of masks to create a theatre that combined ritual and ceremony with drama?

A) Peking Opera
B) Colonial drama
C) Nigerian actorless plays
D) Morocco Mimes
E) Precolonial

Question 14

Which book is often considered to be the most valuable historical record of Indian theatre?

Question 15

Ritual ____ continue to play an important role in our lives today.

A) does
B) does not

Question 16

Which type of Indian theatre is named for the ancient Indian language?

A) Natyasastra
B) Dushyanta
C) Kalidasa
D) Shakuntala
E) Sanskrit

Question 17

The _____ of Australia continue their thousand-year-old rituals by fusing music, dance, and drama together.

A) Apaches
B) Kung Bushman
C) Aborigines
D) Maori
E) Celts

Question 18

What is Bunraku?

A) The silhouette theatre of Morocco
B) Traditional colonial drama
C) Traditional Japanese puppet theatre
D) Another name for Natyasastra Theatre
E) A modified form of Batruni theatre

Question 19

In the nineteenth century, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Italy divided Africa into territories. They introduced what type of theatre?

A) Western-style theatre
B) Covent Garden Opera
C) American style theatre
D) Precolonial theatre
E) Morocco Mimes

Question 20

In India, _____ is the god of actors and dancers.

A) Brahmin
B) Vishnu
C) The Mahabarata
D) Siva
E) Krishna

Question 21

Actors in China sometimes refer to themselves as children of the…

Question 22

The pine tree painted on the back wall of traditional Japanese theatres symbolizes eternal life. Name one of the two types of physical Japanese theatres that have a pine tree painted on its back wall.

Question 23

Which country invaded India and introduced western-style theatre?

Question 24

One of the most common types of plays written in Africa during the post-colonial period is what those in Hollywood would call a "fish-out-of-water story." Sarzan by Senegalese poet _____ is one of the best known of this type of play.

Question 25

The British opened the first European-style theatre in what country of region on the African continent?

Question 26

The word ritual comes from the Latin word ritualis which means a _____ connected with human life and all that sustains it.

Question 27

_____ is a technique used by everyone from Shakespeare to African storytellers in which audiences are invited to "see" the story with their mind's eye.

Question 28

Who was Chikamatsu Monzaemon?

Question 29

What is an onnagata?

Question 30

_____ by Kalidasa is one of the most revered and important Sanskrit plays.