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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. 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 lack of culture.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The price is too high.

2. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Brazen.
(c) Bold.
(d) Naive.

3. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?
(a) On a screen.
(b) At a remote distance.
(c) Close to us.
(d) In the air.

4. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?
(a) Specific.
(b) Nonexistent.
(c) Silent.
(d) Deadly.

5. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Screaming loudly.
(b) Weeping uncontrollably.
(c) Pretending to be a tree.
(d) Standing on a cliff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?

3. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?

4. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?

5. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

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