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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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 actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) A critic.
(b) An audience.
(c) Another actor.
(d) A director.
2. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Jenet.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Grotowski.
3. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Chekhovian Actor.
(b) The Method Actor.
(c) The Classical Actor.
(d) The Meisner Actor.
4. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Label.
(b) Applause.
(c) Necessity.
(d) Feeling.
5. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Authorship.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Actors.
Short Answer Questions
1. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
2. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
3. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
4. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
5. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
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