Due Monday, March 1

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Drama Test Study Guide


Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

 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 even timeline questions for each play
 Quotations identification
 Term identification

Oedipus Chronology
Check out Carly's cool Doll House Chronology


If you create a chronology that you'd like me to attach, email it to me and I'll try to get it posted.

Due Monday, March 1

Finish Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Due Thursday, 2/25

Read Act I of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Due 2/17

Death of a Salesman Act I

Due Friday, February 12

Finish reading a Doll's House.

Then, choose from Nora, Helmer, Rank, Krogstand, or Kristine and write a 1 1/2 to 2 page character analysis. Consider internal conflicts, motivations, desires, psychoanalysis...

Make sure to use direct quotations from the text to support your ideas.

Due 2/10

Read Act I and pertaining background information for A Doll House.

Due 2/8

Finish reading Tartuffe.