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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Actor's Training (1966).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grotowski talks of catharsis in comparing how the audience feels for Creon versus _____.
(a) Antigone.
(b) Pandora.
(c) Athena.
(d) Oedipus.

2. The cycle of exercises in "Stimulation of the Voice" from "Actor's Training (1966)," ends with _____.
(a) The chest voice.
(b) The head voice.
(c) The back voice.
(d) The belly voice.

3. Who wrote the original script of "Dr. Faustus"?
(a) Grotowski.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Molière.

4. In Scene 4 of "Dr. Faustus", Faustus describes his struggle between theology and magic as represented by an owl and a _____.
(a) Monkey.
(b) Canary.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Donkey.

5. Who does Grotowski say theorized that the theatre should be a synthesis of all the arts?
(a) Stanislavski.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Kranikav.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the action of "Akropolis" take place in the text?

2. The first explanation of the "Shoulderstand exercises" is _____.

3. Grotowski states in "Theatre is an Encounter" that Meyerhold's production of "The Inspector General" was a sort of collage of the texts of _____.

4. What is the name of the exercise from "Actor's Training (1966)" which intends to make the pupil let himself go completely, and at the same time, set the guttural resonator in action?

5. Most of the physical distortion exercises from "Actor's Training (1966)" seem to be based on _____.

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