The Empty Space Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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 B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Deadly Theatre, part 2 (p. 30-46).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Drama.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Art.

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

3. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Creativity.
(b) Actors.
(c) Authorship.
(d) Magnitude.

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) California.
(d) Connecticut.

5. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A religion.
(b) A misery.
(c) A waste.
(d) A whore.

Short Answer Questions

1. A word is an end product which begins with what?

2. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?

3. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

4. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."

5. Every work and every period has its own what?

(see the answer key)

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