The Empty Space Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Empty Space Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 1 (p 47 to 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Hamlet.

2. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
(a) French Theatre.
(b) Shakespearean Theatre.
(c) Noh Theatre.
(d) Indian Theatre.

3. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Sletteland.
(b) Williams.
(c) Pinter.
(d) Shepard.

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Beliefs in ideals.
(b) Imperial gestures.
(c) Understanding of truths.
(d) Creative impulses.

5. When did the author first go to Stratford?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

2. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

3. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

4. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

5. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?

(see the answer key)

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