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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 writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Space.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Economic.
(d) Socialist.

2. 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 Classical Actor.
(c) The Method Actor.
(d) The Meisner Actor.

3. When did the author first go to Stratford?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1961.

4. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Jerzy Grotowski.

5. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Cheating themselves.
(b) Cheating the critics.
(c) Lying to the authors.
(d) Being idiots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?

2. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

3. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

4. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

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

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