Term test Review

5-If you wanted to learn more about acting on the Elizabethan stage, where should you look first?

• Correct: C—Life in the Elizabethan Theater. Because, you know, it’s going to tell you what it was like to be in the Elizabethan theater. As an actor. Duh.
• Incorrect: A— “Costumes in the Elizabethan Theater”…it’s about costumes…
• Incorrect: B—”Elizabethan Drama: Eight Plays” seems close. But seems like it would just be a book with eight plays in it, not a book about acting, right?
• Incorrect: D— “Training to Fight in the Elizabethan Theater” is also close. It would talk about actors learning to fight. But that’s pretty specific, huh? The question asked where you could learn about acting as a whole, not just how to fight on stage.

6-what does the author accomplish by including paragraph 5 on the actors need to be talented dancers?

• “Another test of an actor’s physical control was in dancing.” That’s the first sentence in paragraph 5, and it sums it up pretty well: actors needed to be able to control their bodies well.
• Correct: D— “stresses the technical abilities each actor had to have”—technical abilities like controlling your body
• Incorrect: A—she does not describe the dances themselves
• Incorrect: B—she does not describe the training they went through or how they trained
• Incorrect: C—if this paragraph was supposed to show that “the dancing had to be perfect to impress the crowd”, we would have gotten some lines about what happened when people messed up, right?

7-how would the sidebar support the information of the passage?

• “William Shakespeare is one of the most well known playwrights in the history of drama. His skill as an actor was rivaled by his true talent in being able to produce some of the most well written and memorable plays the world has ever known.”
• What does this tell you about? That’s right, Shakespeare. Who he is. What he did. So it would provide background about him, probs.
• Correct: B— “provide the reader with an understanding of who Shakespeare is…”