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Descriptive Statements:
- Identify basic terms and elements associated with music, drama, dance, and the visual arts.
- Recognize basic techniques, tools, and processes for creating and performing works in the various arts.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the ways the arts can be used as a form of communication, self-expression, and social expression and the connections between the art disciplines, other disciplines, and everyday life.
- Identify the basic structures and functions of the human body, common diseases and illnesses and how to prevent or treat them, and nutritional principles that influence health and development.
- Apply knowledge of principles, practices, and skills for maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health and safety and for reducing health risks.
- Identify the components of health-related fitness and appropriate activities to promote the development of locomotor, nonlocomotor, manipulative, and perceptual awareness skills in children.
Sample Item:
In dramatic literature, which of the following is a common characteristic of plays that
are classified as tragedies?
- a story line that ridicules a situation in society for the purpose of improving it
- stock characters who represent particular personality types
- a clear and unchanging view of right and wrong
- a main character who makes an error that leads to inevitable consequences
Correct Response and Explanation (Show Correct ResponseHide Correct Response)
D. This question requires the examinee to identify basic terms associated
with drama. Tragedy is a serious dramatic form that has a sorrowful or disastrous
conclusion in which a central character suffers some misfortune that is logically
connected to the character's actions.