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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 climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?
(a) The climax of relief.
(b) The climax of fear.
(c) The climax of silence.
(d) The climax of intent.

2. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?
(a) Tennessee Williams.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Clifford Odets.

3. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

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

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) Actors.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Authorship.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?

3. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?

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

5. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?

(see the answer key)

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