Arts Toolkit: Drama Handout

Multiple-Choice Questions

Creating a Historical Setting

1. Technical elements include
   1. stage manager, usher, and box office manager.
   2. rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
   3. characterization, breath control, and body alignment.
   4. lights, set, props, costumes, and makeup.
   
   
2. Frankenstein’s makeup was used to show that
   1. he was pieced together.
   2. he was dead.
   3. he was really old.
   4. he once was handsome.
   
   
3. The costumes in Frankenstein suggest that
   1. the story takes place in early afternoon.
   2. the characters are old and sad.
   3. the story takes place in contemporary time.
   4. the characters are members of the upper class.
   
   
4. We know Frankenstein is set in a different time period because of
   1. the actors and the curtains.
   2. the staging and the director.
   3. the sets and the costumes.
   4. the makeup and the props.
   
   
5. In the play, sound is used to
   1. fill dead space.
   2. be annoying.
   3. create a mood.
   4. signal the end of the act.
   
   
6. The intensity of the action in Frankenstein can be seen through
   1. the actors’ faces.
   2. the lights and the sound.
   3. the sets and costumes.
   4. the sound only.
   
   
7. The mood created by the music during Elizabeth’s last monologue is
   1. happy.
   2. sad.
   3. lazy.
   4. quiet.
   
   
8. The point in Frankenstein when the lights revealed a happy/light mood was
   1. in the beginning with Elizabeth and Victor.
   2. when the gun went off.
   3. during Elizabeth’s last monologue.
   4. in the lab.
   
   
9. The lighting in the lab was dimmer than the rest of the stage because
   1. there were no windows to let in natural light.
   2. there were no lights hung in that area.
   3. there the mood was romantic and happy.
   4. there the characters could relax.
   
   
10. Victor’s probable motivation for killing himself was
    1. his hatred of his marriage.
    2. his desire to become like his creation.
    3. his way of taking the blame for the murders.
    4. his feeling that it was the only way to escape.

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