Chapter 10

Question 1

Who is the author of “All the World’s a Stage”?

Answer 1

Willaim Shakespeare

Question 2

What are the themes of “All the World’s a Stage”?

Answer 2

life and the university of drama

Question 3

What is the literary device used throughout “All the World’s a Stage”?

Answer 3

extended metaphor

Question 4

What is literature that tells a story through characters, dialogue, and action?

Answer 4

drama

Question 5

What is how the drama, or play, progresses?

Answer 5

action

Question 6

What is verbal communication between two or more characters?

Answer 6

dialogue

Question 7

What is it called when the actor speaks directly to the audience?

Answer 7

aside

Question 8

What are written instructions that include details of the play’s setting, specific instructions for the actors, and cues?

Answer 8

stage directions

Question 9

What is drama that ends happily?

Answer 9

comedy

Question 10

What is drama that ends unhappily?

Answer 10

tragedy

Question 11

What is a virtuous character in a Greek tragedy who struggles with tragic flaw?

Answer 11

tragic hero

Question 12

What is a fault in the tragic hero’s character?

Answer 12

tragic flaw

Question 13

What are singers who guide the audience through themes by commenting on the play’s action?

Answer 13

chorus

Question 14

What is the introductory background of a play?

Answer 14

prologue

Question 15

What is the song delivered as the chorus enters the orchestra?

Answer 15

parados

Question 16

What is the first part of the ode that is sung as the chorus moves across one direction of the stage?

Answer 16

strophe

Question 17

What is the second part that is sung while the chorus moves in the opposite direction?

Answer 17

antistrophe

Question 18

What is the third part that is sung while the chorus stands still?

Answer 18

epode

Question 19

What is the ending song in which the chorus explains the moral lesson of the tragedy?

Answer 19

exodos

Question 20

Who is the author of “Poetics”?

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

Who is the author of “Antigone”?

Answer 21

Sophocles

Question 22

What are the themes of “Antigone”?

Answer 22

authority, honor, loyalty, and love

Question 23

What is the name of the king in “Antigone”?

Answer 23

Creon

Question 24

What is Creon’s tragic flaw?

Answer 24

pride

Question 25

What work are these lines from: "But if I left the corpse, my mother's son, / dead and unburied I'd have cause to grieve as now I grieve not."?

Answer 25

Antigone

Question 26

Who is Antigone's sister who also accepts blame?

Answer 26

Ismene

Question 27

Who is Creon's son in "Antigone"?

Answer 27

Haemon

Question 28

Who is Haemon to Antigone?

Answer 28

her fiancé

Question 29

Who is the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac"?

Answer 29

Edmond Rostand

Question 30

What are the themes of "Cyrano de Bergerac"?

Answer 30

love and appearance vs. reality

Question 31

Who is Cyrano de Bergerac trying to woo?

Answer 31

Roxane

Question 32

Who is the other person trying to woo Roxane besides Cyrano?

Answer 32

Christian

Question 33

What is the country that "Cyrano de Bergerac" is set in?

Answer 33

France

Question 34

What work are these lines from: "Ay, a news tone! In the tender, sheltering dusk/ I dare to be myself for once, -- at last!"?

Answer 34

Cyrano de Bergerac

Question 35

What does Christian ask Roxane for?

Answer 35

a kiss

Question 36

What does Cyrano compare Roxane to?

Answer 36

a star

Question 37

Who is the author of "The Post Office"?

Answer 37

Rabindranath Tagore

Question 38

Who is the main character in "The Post Office"?

Answer 38

Amal

Question 39

Who is the first person who Amal talks to?

Answer 39

the dairy man

Question 40

What is wrong with Amal?

Answer 40

he is very sick and cannot leave

Question 41

What is the dairyman selling?

Answer 41

curds

Question 42

Who is the second person that Amal interacts with?

Answer 42

the watchman

Question 43

What is the watchman's job?

Answer 43

he rings the gong

Question 44

What work are these lines from: "Not a bit; it has been no loss to me at all; you have taught me how to be happy selling curds"?

Answer 44

The Post Office

Question 45

What literary device is used in these lines: "My gong sounds to tell people, Time waits for none, but goes on forever"?

Answer 45

foreshadowing

Question 46

What are the themes of "The Post Office"?

Answer 46

mortality and appreciating life

Question 47

What job does Amal want to ask the king for?

Answer 47

a postman

Question 48

What is the name of the girl that Amal meets?

Answer 48

Sudha

Question 49

What is Sudha's job?

Answer 49

she picks flowers

Question 50

What does Amal give to the boys that stop by his house?

Answer 50

his toys

Question 51

Where does Gaffer claim he just got back from?

Answer 51

Parrots' Isle

Question 52

Who is the author of "Pygmalion"?

Answer 52

Geroge Bernard Shaw

Question 53

What are the themes of "Pygmalion"?

Answer 53

social class, respect, and language

Question 54

What is the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it?

Answer 54

satire

Question 55

Who was the character in "Pygmalion" who was the former flower girl who had been taught to speak and act like a proper British lady?

Answer 55

Eliza Doolittle

Question 56

Who was the character in "Pygmalion" who was the phonetics teacher who bet that he could teach a flower girl to speak proper English so well that he could pass her off as a dutchess in high society?

Answer 56

Professor Henry Higgins

Question 57

Who was the character in "Pygmalion" who was the kind old gentleman and retired officer who treats Eliza with respect?

Answer 57

Colonel Pickering

Question 58

What work are these lines from: "I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me like a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me like a lady, and always will."?

Answer 58

Pygmalion