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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 1 (p 47 to 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Superficiality.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Discoveries.
(d) Journeys.

2. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Applause.
(b) Feeling.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Label.

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Xing Opera Company.
(b) Siam Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Pekin Opera Company.

4. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".
(a) Suffering.
(b) Expanding.
(c) Dwindling.
(d) Struggling.

5. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?
(a) Charles Marowitz.
(b) Celice Dayton.
(c) Arthur Miller.
(d) Harold Pinter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

2. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

3. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."

4. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

5. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

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