Trivia Quiz on Ballet Terminology

1. A ballet movement in which the dancer repeatedly crosses his or her legs in the air.

A) Entrechat

B) Grand jeté

C) Fouetté

D) Pas de chat

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2. In ballet, a gliding step which usually connects two steps.

A) Glissade

B) jete

C) pirouette

D) pas de bourree

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3. In the Bolshoi ballet what does the word Bolshoi mean

A) Large

B) Grand

C) Big

D) Great

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4. Catlike leap in which one foot follows the other into the air, knees bent; the landing is in the fifth position.

A) Entrechat

B) Pas de chat

C) Grand jeté

D) Assemblé

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5. In ballet, a bend from the waist to the side or to the back.

A) Plié

B) Penché

C) Épaulement

D) Cambré

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6. In ballet, an elongated line; in particular, the horizontal line of an arasbesque with one arm stretched front and the other back.

A) Demi-plié

B) Port de bras

C) Allongé

D) Arabesque

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7. In ballet, a lowering of the body by bending the knee.

A) Plie

B) Fondu

C) Jete

D) Releve

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8. In ballet, a step done off the ground.

A) Sur le sol

B) À terre

C) En dehors

D) En l'air

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9. A ballet in which the women wear white tutus, such as the second and fourth acts of Swan Lake.

A) Giselle

B) Romantic ballet

C) Ballet blanc

D) The Sleeping Beauty

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10. In ballet, a closed position of the feet.

A) Première position

B) Deuxième position

C) Fermé

D) Troisième position

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11. In ballet, a position with the body at an oblique angle and the working leg crossing the line of the body.

A) Écarté

B) Croisée

C) Effacé

D) Quatrième devant

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12. In ballet, low, as in placement of arms.

A) En haut

B) En avant

C) A la seconde

D) En bas

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13. In ballet, the third and final part of the classical pas de deux.

A) Entrée

B) Adagio

C) Coda

D) Variations

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14. In ballet, the position of the arms.

A) Port de bras

B) Épaulement

C) Tendu

D) Plié

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15. A jump in which the legs open in second position in the air, resembling a scissors.

A) Ciseaux

B) Jeté

C) Entrechat

D) Sauté

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16. A dance for two, usually a woman and a man. In its traditional form, it begins with an entreé and adagio, followed by solo variations for each dancer, and a coda.

A) Pas de deux

B) Pas de trois

C) Duet

D) Waltz

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17. In ballet, leaning forward.

A) Penché

B) Arabesque

C) Attitude

D) Échappé

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