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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of the actors in one place?
(a) Scene.
(b) Montage.
(c) Clip.
(d) Chapter.

2. What theatrical term refers to the shutting off of stage lights?
(a) Twilight.
(b) Stage-left.
(c) Footlights.
(d) Blackout.

3. What overlapping ballad is sung by Natalie and Diana in Act 2, Scene 11?
(a) "Just Another Day".
(b) "You Don't Know".
(c) "Maybe / Next to Normal".
(d) "Light".

4. In Act 2, Scene 11, Natalie sings that normal is too far away, but that she'd settle for something what?
(a) "You Don't Know".
(b) "Next to Normal".
(c) "I Am the One".
(d) "I Miss the Mountains".

5. What in musical theater refers to a musical number in which music, ideas and even some text are sung again some time after being sung the first time?
(a) Octone.
(b) Reprise.
(c) Chord.
(d) Ballad.

6. What reprise does Dr. Madden sing to Diana in Act 2, Scene 10?
(a) "Hey #3".
(b) "Perfect for You".
(c) "Make Up Your Mind".
(d) "Better Than Before".

7. In Act 2, Scene 5, Gabe sings of the hole left in Diana's mind by what?
(a) His need to be an engineer.
(b) His desire to climb the mountain.
(c) His love for Dan.
(d) His having been erased from her memory.

8. When Henry says he'll be there for Natalie in Act 2, Scene 12, she protests, with increasing anger, that she might turn out to what?
(a) Be a failure.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Betray him.
(d) Ruin his life.

9. What is defined as a musical composition for two voices or instruments?
(a) Quartet.
(b) Solo.
(c) Symphony.
(d) Duet.

10. In Act 2, Scene 10, Diana musically asks Dr. Madden what urgent driving question?
(a) How will the new drugs affect her memory?
(b) What happens when a treatment reveals a wound different from the one that had originally been treated?
(c) How long will the therapy last?
(d) What happened to Dr. Smith?

11. The song sung by Natalie and Henry in Act 2, Scene 6 is a reprise of what song?
(a) "I Am the One".
(b) "Perfect for You".
(c) "Hey #1".
(d) "Hey #2".

12. In Act 2, Scene 2, Natalie comments ironically on how good the treatment is - her mother's mind is "so pure / that she doesn't _____."
(a) "Know anything."
(b) "Question."
(c) "Remember."
(d) "Have fear."

13. What refers to the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Fact checking.
(c) Vocabulary.
(d) Memory.

14. What song does Diana sing to Dr. Madden in Act 2, Scene 10?
(a) "You Don't Know".
(b) "Aftershocks".
(c) "The Break".
(d) "I'm Alive".

15. In Act 2, Scene 9, Gabe appears, singing that he is "more than" what?
(a) Memory.
(b) Human.
(c) Death.
(d) Ghost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements?

2. What does Henry want to take Natalie to in Act 2, Scene 3?

3. What does Diana not remember having had in Act 2, Scene 7?

4. What does Dan take from Diana and break in Act 2, Scene 8?

5. What is defined as existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent?

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