QUIZ 8: HISTORY - CONTEMPORARY THEATER 10362

Question 1

Luis Valdez helped create a theater company called:

 El Teatro de la Luna  

 El Teatro Campesino  

 Campo Santo  

 El Torro del Teatro  

Question 2

One of the most important plays in the development of African American theater is A Raisin in the Sun. It was written by:

 Lorraine Hansberry  

 Alice Childress  

 David Mamet  

 August Wilson  

Question 3

In theater that is considered to be Post-Modern, a playwright might use ideas that are not just from one genre, but maybe from several.

 True  

 False  

Question 4

The Normal Heart and Angels in America are both plays that deal with:

 Issues of being Native American in the United States  

 Lesbian relationships in the 1930s  

 Issues of fairness and justice for California farm workers  

 The AIDS crisis of the 1980s  

Question 5

The play The Laramie Project is important because:

 It helped Anna Deveare Smith start her career  

 It was one of August Wilson's best plays  

 It helped re-shape people's thinking about how gay and lesbian people are treated  

 It is a great example of a successful Broadway musical  

Question 6

The increased global connections that have occurred over the past several years have had very little effect on the shape of American Theater

 True  

 False  

Question 7

Mabou Mines is a theater company that is important because:

 It was an early Native American theater company  

 It helped develop Post-Modernist theater  

 It helped develop The Lion KIng  

 It did mostly plays by gay and lesbian playwrights  

Question 8

Off-Broadway Theater began in the:

 1940s  

 1950s  

 1960s  

 1970s  

Question 9

Which of these playwrights is NOT an American playwright?

 August Wilson  

 Sam Shepard  

 Tom Stoppard  

 Arthur Miller  

Question 10

Which statement is NOT true?:

 Anna Deveare Smith is known for influencing the growing popularity of solo shows  

 Anna Deveare Smith is known for influencing the development of Documentary theater  

 Anna Deveare Smith is known for creating The Lion King  

 Anna Deveare Smith is known for being a performance artist  

Question 11

Luis Valdez created a theater company as a way of bringing attention to the issues of which group of people?:

 Cuban immigrants in Florida  

 Hotel workers in California  

 Farm workers in California  

 Truck drivers in Alabama  

Question 12

African American theater companies really didn't get started until the late 1970s

 True  

 False  

Question 13

The Lion King is a good example of a Post Modernist play

 True  

 False  

Question 14

Philip Kan Gotanda is:

 An important African playwright  

 An important Asian American playwright  

 The creator of The Lion King  

 The writer of M. Butterfly  

Question 15

The Lion King could be considered a good example of an off-off-off Broadway play

 True  

 False  

Question 16

The genre of Docudramas is something that is really only done in the United States

 True  

 False  

Question 17

Native American theater was primarily forms of spiritual and social rituals. These were stopped for almost a hundred years because:

 Native Americans began doing commercial theater in New York instead  

 Native American people lost interest in doing them  

 The U.S. government outlawed many of them  

Question 18

The term Post-Modernism is really just another word for Realism

 True  

 False  

Question 19

August Wilson was a great 20th century African-American playwright.

 True  

 False  

Question 20

"Spiderwoman Theater" is the name of:

 An important Native American theater company  

 The first play developed by Teatro Campesino  

 A popular Broadway musical of the 1970s  

 An early African American theater company  

Question 21

The style and feel of Twilight Los Angeles is basically the way that all Performance Art is done.

 True  

 False  

Question 22

Anna Deveare Smith went to college and started her acting career in the Bay Area

 True  

 False  

Question 23

Anna Deveare Smith's play, Twilight Los Angeles 1992, could be considered an example of which genre:

 All three answers are true  

 Documentary Drama  

 Performance Art  

 Solo Performance  

Question 24

Theater in Off-Off Broadway productions is often more daring and adventurous than Broadway productions.

 True  

 False  

Question 25

When Anna Deveare Smith created Twilight Los Angeles 1992, how did she create the characters in the play?:

 She invented the characters through improvisation  

 She interviewed many people and then acted out their words and behaviors  

 By studying old documentaries about the Rodney King trials  

 She had someone else write them for her