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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. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Formosa Opera Company.
(b) Siam Opera Company.
(c) Xing Opera Company.
(d) Pekin Opera Company.

2. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Forest.
(b) Machine.
(c) Man.
(d) Monster.

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

4. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) Another actor.
(b) A critic.
(c) An audience.
(d) A director.

5. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?

2. 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?

3. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

4. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?

5. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

(see the answer key)

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