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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. "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) Magnitude.
(b) Drama.
(c) Art.
(d) Theatre.

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

3. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) Why.
(b) Where.
(c) When.
(d) What.

4. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Journeys.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Discoveries.

5. Who wrote Ubu Roi?
(a) Merce Cunningham.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. "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."

4. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

5. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

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