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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 2 (p 134 to 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) A director.
(b) An audience.
(c) Another actor.
(d) A critic.

2. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."
(a) Objective.
(b) Honest.
(c) True.
(d) Subjective.

3. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Williams.

4. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?
(a) Jenet.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Grotowski.
(d) Artaud.

5. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Machine.
(b) Forest.
(c) Man.
(d) Monster.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?

3. What equation does the author give for the formula we are about to be upon?

4. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."

5. 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."

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