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Test (Yourself) Before Test

Part I. MC Questions

Instructions:
1. Click the red button next to each answer you think is most correct.
2. If you do not know the answer, do not guess, since wrong answers are penalized.
3. If you check the wrong red button, simply click the correct one to change it.
4. If you have checked a red button with a guess and wish to deselect all red buttons for that question, just click the lit red button.
5. When finished, click the "Click When Finished Button" at the end of the test. Your score will appear below it, and all correct answers will be lit with a green button. Check over the "green lit" answers you didn't know to assist you in knowing what areas you still need to study.

Acting 121 Test
What do we call `characterization'?
When an actor has a strong character
Process of developing text into a role
Process of miming
Developing your personal skills
Interacting with the audience
What is `emotional recall'?
Getting physical
Recalling your previous performance
Responding to your partner
Recalling your own experiences
Recalling your mistakes in the scene
What do we need Floor Plan for?
To diagram your movements and positions
To know where is left and right on stage
To remember what kind of set you have
To memorize the set
To communicate with the set designer
How do we call the last past of any dramatic composition?
Climax
Final Scene
The End
Conclusion
Resolution
When was the Method Acting developed?
1st half of the 19th century
in the 18th century
mid 20th century
in the 60s
70s

Part II. Essay-type answers

Write short (1-2 paragraphs) answers:

"Play well, or play badly, but play truly." (Konstantin Stanislavsky)

What does Stanislavsky mean by "truly"?

"So we may say that the strength of the movement stirs our willpower in general; the kind of movement awakens in us a definite corresponding desire, and the quality of the same movement conjures up our feelings." (Michail Chekhov)

How do you undertsand this statement?

Part III. Analysis

Monologue
Gogol, Inspector General:
MAYOR
Engaged! Engaged! Stuff your engagement! (In a frenzy) Look at me, all look at me, I want the whole world, every nation, to look at me! See what a fool the mayor has been made! (Shakes his fist at himself) Oh you idiot! Taking that jerk, that worm, for a VIP! And now he is in the air, laughing and spreading the story everywhere. He'll turn you into the laughingstock of the whole world! What's worse -- some scribbler will stick you into a comedy! That's hurts. And they'll all grin and clap. (To the audience) What are you laughing at? You, you're laughing at yourself! Ooooh! You sniveling liberals! Devil's seed! I'd tie you all in a knot, pound you all to a jelly and kick you down to hell! (Strikes out with his fist) What was there about that scatterbrain to make us take him for an investor? Nothing! Not that much! And yet everyone was suddenly yapping, "It's the millionaire! The investor! Inspector!" Who started the rumor? Who?
1. Identify three major elements of composition: Exposition, Climax, Resolution

2. Use the floor plan chart to indicate acting areas

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Acting 121 Test
What do we call `characterization'?
	When an actor has a strong character
	Process of developing text into a role
	Process of miming
	Developing your personal skills
	Interacting with the audience
What is `emotional recall'?
	Getting physical
	Recalling your previous performance
	Responding to your partner
	Recalling your own experiences
	Recalling your mistakes in the scene
What do we need Floor Plan for?
	To diagram your movements and positions
	To know where is left and right on stage
	To remember what kind of set you have
	To memorize the set
	To communicate with the set designer
How do we call the last past of any dramatic composition?
	Climax
	Final Scene
	The End
	Conclusion
	Resolution
When was the Method Acting developed?
	1st half of the 19th century
	in the 18th century
	mid 20th century
	in the 60s
	70s