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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. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Final Hour.
(b) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) The Investigation.

2. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?
(a) That they wear off.
(b) That they are empty.
(c) That they arrest thought.
(d) That they are false.

3. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Intellectualism.
(c) Boringness.
(d) Celebration.

4. What is the theatre district in London called?
(a) SoHo.
(b) East End.
(c) Broadway.
(d) West End.

5. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) An impulse.
(b) A thought.
(c) An idea.
(d) A motion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every work and every period has its own what?

2. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

3. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

4. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

5. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."

(see the answer key)

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