Performing Arts Questions and Answers - Grade 7 End Term 1 Exams 2023 Set 1

 QUESTIONS

1. What importance do Performing Arts have to the country? (3mks)
2. Name the genres under elocution. (3mks)
3. Which genre in drama contains themes with calamities? (1mk)
4. What is the name of the following note? (1mk)
   
5. Why do we group notes? (1mk)
6. What is the difference between the scale of C major and other scales? (2mks)
7. Name the features of a narrative? (3mks)
8. What was the medium that was used to tell the story? (1mk)
9. What are the qualities of a good storyteller? (4mks)
10. How can contemporary issues be addressed using narrative form? (1mk)

Read the verse below.

SAY NO TO DRUGS
Drug addiction is bad
Being force to take it should make you mad
We should say no to drugs
We should take care of our loved ones
That's how we become good friends

11. What the main theme of the verse? (1mk)
12. What is the value being taught by the theme? (1mk)
13. How would you use the stage during the presentations? (2mks)
14. Why do we improvise costumes and props in a skit? (2mks)
15. Why do we improvise dialogues in a skit? (2mks)
16. Describe the structure of a skit. (3mks)
17. State one importance of performing Arts to learners. (1mk)
18. What does a two-beat pattern consist of? (2mks)
19. What is the difference between a quaver and a semiquaver? (2mks)
20. What is a staff? (2mks)
21. How is proper use of body and space important in the delivery of verse?  (2 mks)
22. What is the difference between the following disciplines of Performing Arts? (6 mks)
    1. Film and drama
    2. Music and Dance
    3. Drama and elocution
23. Which are the genres in dance?   (2mks)
24. What is a skit?  (1mk)
25. What role does dialogue play in hte performance of a skit?  (1mk)

MARKING SCHEME

1. they bring people together
2. public speech, verse, assess
3. tragedy
4. semiquaver
5. for ease of performance and to show thay they are in beat
6. the scale of C major does not have any accidental
7. characters, setting, events, theme
8. voice
9. speak loudly for the audience, have a good expression, confidence, make use of space
10. by being used as the main message or theme in a narrative
11. drug addiction
12. say no to drugs
13. move around the stage, assess
14. use locally available materials
15. assess
16. beginning, middle or climax, end
17. It can lead to a successful career 
18. a strong beat occuring after every two beats
19. a quaver has one look while a semiquaver has two hooks
20. a set of five horizontal parallel lines of the same length with four equal spaces between them used to represent different levels of music sounds
21. It communicates the appropriate mood and message of the verse.
22.  
    1. a story or a play recorded by video camera is s film. Drama is a story performed Infront of people
    2. use of tone, melody, rhythm is music. Dance is body movement accompanied by music
    3. drama is a story performed infront of people while elocution is performance of speech
23. solo dance, choral dance
24. a short play, assess
25. It communicate the message, it brings old characters, assess