quiz

1 __________is a Native American belief that spirits exist not only in humans but also in animals, plants, trees, rocks, and all natural forces and phenomena such as rain, sun and moon. 2 Native Americans used __________ to pass down traditions such as local customs, how to live off the land and how to survive in the natural environment in which they lived. 3 Native American tribes that were nomadic and needed to follow the buffalo and other animals for food needed homes that were able to be moved quickly and easily set up called __________. 4 The Phoenicians began to spread a distinctly new writing system, based on an alphabet, across the entire Mediterranean basin. In about 800 BCE the __________ adopted the Phoenician alphabet 5 We believe that the Trojan War occurred sometime around 1200 BCE. Out of the oral materials Homer inherited, he composed two great epic poems, __________.  6 By the 6th century BCE, the 15, 693 lines of the __________ were recited every four years in Athens and many copies circulated around Greece in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. 7 It is the “doubleness” of the human spirit, its cruelty and its humanity, its blindness and its insight, that perhaps best defines the power and vision of the __________. 8 __________ was the greatest defender of Democracy. 9 __________ is an attempt to describe the difficulties the psyche encounters in its attempt to understand the higher Forms. 10 The Greek theatres were large, open air structures constructed n the slopes of hills. They consisted of three main elements: the orchestra, the __________ and the audience. 11 The ancient Greek __________, designed by Polyclitus, had perfect acoustics. Even a coin being dropped in the center of the performance circle could be heard in the back rows. 12 Always the last event of daylong performances, the __________ was a farce in which actors disguised themselves as satyrs, replete with extravagant genitalia, and generally honored the “lord of misrule,” Dionysos, by misbehaving themselves. 13 The play’s __________, the leading character brings the character into conflict with the community, the gods, or some __________ who represents an opposing will. 14 The good life, Aristotle argued, is attainable only through balanced action. Tradition has come to call this the __________. 15 Antonio Minturno (?_1574), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1494 – 1558), and Lodovico Castelvetro (1501 – 1571) laid the foundation for what we now call the __________. 16 It was the __________ who first fully realized the architectural potentialities of the arch, dome and vault. 17 The Romans failed to discover a proper handling of the __________ —the device essential to placing a dome over a square compartment—that was finally achieved by the Byzantine builders of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople (AD 532–37). 18 A __________ was built in the shape of a cross with a magnificent rose window, stain glass window, sharply pointed spires, ribbed vaults, flying buttresses, gargoyles, relics and a Bishop’s chair. 19 The Gothic period of architecture was followed by an even more ornate style called __________. 20 In the Baroque Theatre, for the first time, there appeared an __________ in front of the stage, sunk below ground level. 21 The first ever __________ were written around 1600 by Baroque composers including Monteverdi and Cavalieri, and the genre quickly took off. 22 Conventional __________ is a classical piece of music that tells a story through song often using fairy tales or mythology as a theme. 23 __________ is Philip Glass’s mesmerizing modern opera which brings ancient Egypt to vivid life with striking stage tableaux and a troupe of jugglers. 24 __________ demanded a new type of theatre structure. Begun in 1872 and opened in 1876, the fan shaped Festival Theatre built in Bayreuth was famous throughout the world and was to inspire many reforms in architectural design. Wagner Akhnaten Baroque pendentive opera neoclassical ideal protagonist skene satyr play Golden Mean Iliad Akhnaten operas Animism orchestra pit Romans storytelling Gothic cathedral teepees antagonist Theatre of Dionysis Greeks Allegory of the Cave Homeric epic, the Iliad Socrates 

1. Animism

2. storytelling

3. teepees

4. Greeks

5. Homeric epic, the Iliad

6. Iliad

7. Homeric epic, the Iliad

8. Socrates

9. Allegory of the Cave

10. skene

11. Theatre of Dionysis

12. satyr play

13. protagonist, antagonist

14. Golden Mean

15. neoclassical ideal

16. Romans

17. pendentive

18. Gothic cathedral

19. Baroque

20. orchestra pit

21. operas

22. opera

23. Akhnaten

24. Wagner