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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 job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Super-human.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Tangible.
(d) Easy.

2. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) Creatively.
(b) Intricately.
(c) The least.
(d) The most.

3. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?
(a) Theatre de Francaise.
(b) The West End.
(c) Comedie Francaise.
(d) Broadway.

4. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One week.

5. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) When.
(b) What.
(c) Why.
(d) Where.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

2. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

4. 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?

5. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

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