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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. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?
(a) Sun lighting.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Placards and visible spotlights.
(d) Realistic furniture.

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

3. From which of Shakespeare's plays is the line, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day", which the author uses as an example in "The Immediate Theatre"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) A Winter's Tale.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

4. 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."
(a) Love.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Sex.
(d) Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?

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

4. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Bertolt Brecht and what was his major contribution to the modern theatre?

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

4. What does the author view as the "ideal" training for an actor?

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

6. How does the author view "pre-planning" in approaching a rehearsal process?

7. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

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

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

10. What is the common thread between human existence and approach to process in the theatre?

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