Drama Test Information

Drama Test Study Guide


Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (A Raisin in the Sun will be eligible for essays, but sadly untested due to my lack of time to revise the test at the present time).

 Authors of all of the plays
 All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)

 Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony

 Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles

 Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil

Test format:

90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)

 20 True/False Questions
 5 event timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification