Before the musical, West Side Story, most musicals relied on a chorus of singers and dancers to dress the stage and carry the choreographic responsibility of the big production numbers.

What commonality is shared by the three major literary works of the Middle Ages: Dante's Inferno, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Boccaccio's Decameron?

a) The use of historical events and people in fictionalized accounts. b) The debate about the nature of the individual, salvation, and free will. c) The motif of the journey used to provide a structure for the story. d) The focus on the Christian ideas about heaven, hell, sin, and punishment.

Which of the following characteristics was NOT one of the ways in which Mannerist artworks differed from High Renaissance ideals?

a) asymmetrical compositions b) elongated or distorted proportions c) confusing spatial constructions d) realistic and identifiable subjects