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Test: PSAT Writing
(1) Kabuki performances first appeared in 1603, when a woman named Izumo no Okuni began performing a new style of drama and dance routines outside of Kyoto. (2) This new form of entertainment quickly got popular throughout Japan.
(3) Kabuki was known for its extravagant costumes and elaborate make-up. (4) The stage was what really set it apart from other forms of theater at the time. (5) It included a walkway protruding from the stage out through the audience. (6) Actors would use this walkway to make surprise entrances. (7) More advanced features were added, such as rotating stages and trapdoors to lift actors onto or down from the stage almost instantly. (8) All of these were used to create dramatic emphasis.
| 1. | Which of the following would be the best sentence to insert at the beginning of the passage? |
Kabuki theater, still a very popular form of entertainment in Japan today, was invented over four hundred years ago.
Have you ever been to a Broadway musical?
What is kabuki theater, anyway?
There is a new form of theater in Japan today known as kabuki theater.
In 1629, the Japanese government banned women from performing on stage, so from that point on all female roles were played by men.
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