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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) In a modern way.
(b) As they were written.
(c) As they were performed.
(d) Without regard to language.

2. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Absurdist.
(b) Dadaist.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Surrealist.

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Burlesque.
(b) Television.
(c) Cinema.
(d) Art museums.

4. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Immediate Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Holy Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

5. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(b) The work is too shabby.
(c) The lack of culture.
(d) The price is too high.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?

2. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, because appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?

3. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."

4. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

(see the answer key)

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