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Art and Visual Perception | Set 1

1. A work of art that tell a story is called.

Correct : C. narrative art

2. The Ancient Indian Natyasastra is…………………….

Correct : A. an authoritative text on the sanskrit theatre

3. The Direct descendent of sanskrit drama may be.

Correct : B. kutiyattam

4. Which Of The Following statements are true about the Natyasastram

Correct : D. it functions as a guide to understanding ‘sanskrit’ theatre

5. Japan’s combination of puppetry ballad singing and music is called .

Correct : D. bunraku

6. Many Forms Of Theatre Have Evolved From

Correct : D. all of the above

7. Which is the complicated form of narrative art ,which require a human agency to interpret the content?

Correct : C. simultaneous narrative

8. Which kind of narrative style is used in Comic book?

Correct : C. sequential narrative

9. The Purpose Of Narrative art is

Correct : C. to potrate the story space relating with time

10. In Following,which is the good example for simultanious narration

Correct : D. chaddanta jataja

11. Which in the following is an involuntary form of imagination .

Correct : D. dream of perceptive

12. Imagination uses which function in the following to develop new idea.

Correct : A. if functions

13. What is a Genre

Correct : D. a category of drama

14. A central element of Greek ethucal philosophy is

Correct : C. that we believe we can triumph over the gods

15. Which is the tool of comedy?

Correct : D. all of the above

16. What information did aristotle’s poetics provides?

Correct : D. the essential qualities of a tragic text

17. Conventions of Greek tragedy include .

Correct : D. all of the above

18. What is Dramatic Structure?

Correct : D. the framework of a play

19. Who was the first to define the characteristics of climatic structure?

Correct : D. aristotle

20. .What is the climax of a story?

Correct : A. the point of highest emotional intensity

21. .What is story of a play?

Correct : C. the events that happen or that are mentioned

22. In the context of language, what is meter?

Correct : A. patterns of stressed and un-stressed syllables

23. Like any art, poetry is defined by Aristotle as what?

Correct : B. a kind of imitation.

24. In what three ways does Aristotle differentiate various art forms from one another?

Correct : C. by the medium, objects, and manner of imitation.

25. Aristotle explains that the medium specific to poetry is one that uses what?

Correct : A. language alone.

26. How does Aristotle differentiate poetry from prose?

Correct : A. poetry uses rhythm in the form of meter.

27. The object poetry portrays is what, according to Aristotle?

Correct : A. men in action.

28. The Indus Valley Civilization belongs to the

Correct : A. neolithic age

29. The script of the Harappan people consisted of:

Correct : A. a family of quasi-pictographic writings

30. which of the following presents the most significant feature of Indus Valley Civilization

Correct : A. burnt brick buildings

31. Which of the following is incorrect concerning Mohenjodaro?

Correct : D. there was no drainage system

32. The source of the blue gem stone, lapis lazuli, for the people of Harappan culture, was:

Correct : D. afghanistan

33. The Indus Valley houses were built of:

Correct : B. bricks

34. Of the following Harappan sites those not in India are:

Correct : A. mohenjodaro and harappa

35. Which of the following animals were domesticated by the Harappans

Correct : C. buffalo, sheep, dog, pig

36. The tools and weapons of Harappan civilization were mostly made of:

Correct : D. copper, tin and bronze

37. The script of Indus Valley Civilization was/is

Correct : D. undeciphered

38. In which culture the earliest evidence of silver in India is found?

Correct : A. harappan culture.

39. Which was the most famous building in Mohanjodaro?

Correct : B. the great bath room

40. In which year and by whom the Harappan city Chanhudaro was excavated?

Correct : C. in 1931, by m. g. majumdar.

41. Which materials were used in making buildings in Harappan culture?

Correct : A. terracotta.

42. The main sources of livelihood for the people of Indus Valley Civilization were

Correct : B. agriculture and trade

43. In India entry of Aryans is marked as ______ period

Correct : C. vedic

44. Which of the following are requirements of drama?

Correct : D. all of the above

45. Drama derives from two ancient sources:

Correct : B. storytelling and ritual

46. Which of the following is not a characteristic of ritual?

Correct : C. performed for entertainment only

47. Which of the following is not a development of storytelling?

Correct : D. written dialogue

48. The first recorded drama was:

Correct : C. the abydos passion play

49. The four extant Greek playwrights are:

Correct : B. aeschylus, sophocles, euripedes, and aristophanes

50. The Greek theatre was dedicated to one god in particular named:

Correct : A. dionysus

51. The City Dionysia was:

Correct : A. weeklong springtime festival and play contest

52. The quem queritas trope is a chanted celebration of:

Correct : A. the resurrection of jesus

53. The medieval plays that were performed near the feast of Corpus Christi were also called:

Correct : A. cycle plays

54. The plays of the Middle Ages were performed on:

Correct : C. elaborately decorated wagons or mansions

55. The audience of the Royal era was:

Correct : B. restricted to aristocrats and nobility

56. Which of the following are not a part of the neo-classic rules of playwriting in the Royal era?

Correct : C. vigorous physical action

57. Romanticism in the theatre was characterized by

Correct : A. compassion, rather than style and wit

58. The word theatre is derived from the Greek word theatron, which means:

Correct : D. seeing place

59. The "software" of theatre consists of:

Correct : A. a combination of art, artists and ideas

60. The minimal requirement for a theatre building is:

Correct : C. a place to act and a place to watch

61. The Illustrious Theatre of Paris:

Correct : B. was founded by moliere

62. The aspects of the theatre as an occupation are:

Correct : A. work, art, impersonation, performance

63. The work of producing theatre is involved with:

Correct : A. the script and rehearsals

64. Directing a play involves:

Correct : C. coordinating and unifying the production

65. Designing is the process of:

Correct : A. creating the visual and auditory aspects of the show.

66. Building a production involves:

Correct : D. translating the design into reality

67. Crewing a production is the activity in which:

Correct : B. technicians effectively run the show every performance

68. The work of the theatre is more than perfecting skills. It is also:

Correct : C. artistic work

69. Our life may be fragmented in anarchism and frustration, but art provides:

Correct : D. integration, synthesis and satisfaction

70. The problems of dramatic impersonation were solved in the ancient world through the use of:

Correct : B. masks

71. "Performance" can be defined as:

Correct : A. an action or series of actions done for someone else\s benefit

72. The benefits of performance are:

Correct : B. attention, entertainment, enlightenment and involvement

73. The two general modes of performance are:

Correct : C. presentational and representational

74. The act of feeling for and identifying with characters in a play is known as:

Correct : B. empathy

75. The fundamental forces at work in the live theatre are:

Correct : D. rapport, relationship, immediacy

76. Theatre can be defined in three categories. They are: .

Correct : B. story, plot and theme

77. The playwright is the _____________ of nearly every production.

Correct : C. point of origin

78. Which of the following is not an avenue for a playwright to break-in?

Correct : D. broadway producers

79. A play achieves its final form only when:

Correct : C. it is performed on the stage

80. The playwright works with two fundamental tools:

Correct : C. dialogue and physical action

81. Which of the following is not a demand on credibility?

Correct : C. characters always use good diction

82. A common fault of beginning playwrights is:

Correct : B. lack of speakability

83. When a play truly satisfies us we say it is endowed with:

Correct : C. richness of detail

84. Depth of characterization requires characters to be:

Correct : A. independent, sensible, reasonable and worthwhile

85. A play that tells the story of thirty years are in only two hours is an example of:

Correct : C. compression

86. Three strong building locks in the process of playwriting are:

Correct : A. dialogue, conflict and structure

87. The author of Pulitzer Prize winner Lost in Yonkers and the Brighton Beach Trilogy is:

Correct : B. neil simon

88. America's greatest active playwright is probably:

Correct : D. august wilson

89. The playwright that is called a "Chicago" playwright is:

Correct : C. david mamet

90. The play many critics consider the finest play of the past generation is:

Correct : D. angels in america

91. The two levels of work a director has to do are:

Correct : C. technical and artistic

92. The Greeks called the director didaskolos, which means:

Correct : D. teacher

93. The first director of the modern era was:

Correct : B. george ii, duke of saxe meiningen

94. The real importance of the new directors in the 19th century was:

Correct : B. they opened the theatre to deeper psychological interpretation

95. The principal functions of the director are:

Correct : B. to envision the production and provide leadership

96. Which was the first news paper published In India

Correct : C. bengal gazette

97. One Advantage ,publicity may enjoy over advertising is –

Correct : A. credibility

98. In the ‘ Bull fight’ series Picasso used –

Correct : A. offset lithography

99. Birth place of cubism was in France, Who introduced it?

Correct : D. picasso

100. Painting Art form with female artist majority

Correct : A. mythyla painting