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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 rehearsals, what is the relationship the author establishes?
(a) Actor/designer/director.
(b) Actor/audience/director.
(c) Director/audience/actor.
(d) Actor/subject/director.

2. "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."
(a) Marxist.
(b) Absurdist.
(c) Dadaist.
(d) Surrealist.

3. "Whenever one has a real critical flop, for the remainder of the run there is always a small audience of..." what?
(a) Grand critics.
(b) Cautious ticketpayers.
(c) Great enthusiasm.
(d) Haters.

4. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A mime show.
(b) A musical.
(c) A Surrealist production.
(d) An opera.

5. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?
(a) Henry VIII.
(b) Measure for Measure.
(c) King Lear.
(d) The Tempest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?

2. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?

3. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."

4. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?

5. What is the earliest relationship during the performance/rehearsal process?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write in regard to the power of laughter in "The Rough Theatre"?

2. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

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

4. How does the author describe the difference between staging in "rough" theatre versus traditional theatre?

5. What is one example of Shakespeare's which the author uses as an example in "The Rough Theatre", and what is he saying with this example?

6. How does the author describe the difference between "Rough Theatre" and "Holy Theatre"?

7. What is the audience's role in a final production?

8. How does the author compare the cinema to the theatre?

9. How does the author view Method acting?

10. The author gives a formula for creating and defining theatre. What is this formula?

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