| Question | Answer |
| When was theater said to have start? | cavemen days
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Where did theater officially start? | Greece/Ancient Greeks
| What year did the first theater festival start? | 534 B.C.
| Who was honored at the first theater festival? | Dionysus the greek god of wine and theater
| A set of three plays is called this? | Trilogy
| A _____________ is a group of chanter who sing about the exploits of a god or hero | Chorus
| __________ means goat song | Tragos
| What are the paths by which the chorus and audience would make their entrances and exits called in the Greek Theater? | Parodos
| What was the crane like device that would lower the actor playing a greek god or hero onto the stage called? | Mekhane
| What does the word deus ex machina mean in english? | god from the machine
| What is a periaktoi? | It is a 3 sided flat that was painted on each side with a different scene so when it was rotated you could change the scene easily.
| Who was Thespis? | He was the first guy to step away from the chorus and became the first official actor.
| What do we call modern day group of actors? | Thespians
| Name both of the Greek playwrights | Sophocles and Euripides
| What was the tile of the play of the guy who's family goes against the fates and ends up killing his dad and marring his mom? | Oediups Rex
| What does the word pathos mean? | pit and compassion
| What does the work hubris mean? | excessive pride
| True or false: the Roman empire took over the Greeks in 146 B.C. | True
| True or false: the first stone theater in Rome was built in 55 B.C. | True
| True or false: the Roman theater looked just like the Greeks | False
| What were the tunnels that the led to the stage in the roman theater called? | Vomitoria or voms
| True or false: After the fall of the Roman Empire the time period after it was called the Medieval Period | True
| When did the Medieval Period start? | 500 A.D.
| Who put a ban on theater and why did they put a ban on it? | The Roman Catholic Church and they put an ban on it because they were against things that they did not understand
| Name the four different types of plays that were created by the church during the medieval period | Saint, Mystery, Miracle and Morality Plays
| This type of stage was set up side by side and it represented different places such as heaven, hell or the sea of Galilee. | Mansion stage
| ___________________ was the two story wagon on wheels that was made up a stage for the first level and the bottom level was the dressing room | pageant wagon
| __________________ was a series of a short plays that depicted religious history from creation till the end of time. | Cycle
| True or false: Robin hood plays started during the medieval period | True |
