Function of Setting: Fiction/Drama Practice Test
•15 QuestionsRead the following excerpt from an original drama.
Stage directions: A public library basement meeting room. Fluorescent lights flicker. A banner reading COMMUNITY FORUM hangs crooked, taped over an older banner that reads RETIREMENT CELEBRATION; the old letters show through. A circle of folding chairs surrounds a small table with a microphone that squeals when touched. In the corner, a box labeled LOST & FOUND overflows with single gloves.
CHAIRPERSON: Let’s begin. One speaker at a time.
RUTH (standing immediately): I’ve been waiting to say this for years.
MALIK (raising a hand): Years is the problem.
RUTH: Excuse me?
MALIK: We keep meeting under different banners but it’s always the same room.
CHAIRPERSON (tapping the microphone; it squeals): Please—
RUTH (over the squeal): I’m not retiring from this.
MALIK (looking at the lost gloves): No one ever finds the other half.
In this excerpt, the setting most clearly emphasizes
Read the following excerpt from an original drama.
Stage directions: A public library basement meeting room. Fluorescent lights flicker. A banner reading COMMUNITY FORUM hangs crooked, taped over an older banner that reads RETIREMENT CELEBRATION; the old letters show through. A circle of folding chairs surrounds a small table with a microphone that squeals when touched. In the corner, a box labeled LOST & FOUND overflows with single gloves.
CHAIRPERSON: Let’s begin. One speaker at a time.
RUTH (standing immediately): I’ve been waiting to say this for years.
MALIK (raising a hand): Years is the problem.
RUTH: Excuse me?
MALIK: We keep meeting under different banners but it’s always the same room.
CHAIRPERSON (tapping the microphone; it squeals): Please—
RUTH (over the squeal): I’m not retiring from this.
MALIK (looking at the lost gloves): No one ever finds the other half.
In this excerpt, the setting most clearly emphasizes