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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "In rehearsal, form and _____ have to be examined sometimes together, sometimes separately."
(a) Justification.
(b) Content.
(c) Writing.
(d) Action.

2. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Rough Theatre."
(b) "The Immediate Theatre."
(c) "The Instinctive Theatre."
(d) "The Deadly Theatre."

3. 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?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Screens.

4. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?
(a) Cocteaux.
(b) Robeieux.
(c) Zouicher.
(d) Jarry.

5. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."
(a) Brechtian.
(b) Pagan.
(c) Elizabethan.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The moment of performance, when it comes, is reached through two passageways--the foyer and the..." what?

2. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?

3. Of the two British actors the author compares in "The Immediate Theatre," which is intuition-based?

4. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?

5. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?

2. What is the rough experience which comes from Marat/Sade?

3. How does the author approach form and content between the actor and director?

4. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

5. How does the author view "the actor?" Which British actors does the author compare in "The Immediate Theatre"?

6. What does the author discuss as an ideal in Marat/Sade?

7. How does the author feel that Brecht approaches the "Holy"?

8. How does the author discuss the process of theatre design?

9. How does the author approach the concept of liberation with Shakespeare and Brecht?

10. What does the author describe happening when a Brechtian approach is applied to other works?

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