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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) Tangible.
(b) Super-human.
(c) Easy.
(d) Incomprehensible.

2. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."
(a) Theatre of the Absurd.
(b) Theatre of Realism.
(c) Surrealist Theatre.
(d) Avant garde Theatre.

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

4. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Feeling.
(b) Label.
(c) Applause.
(d) Necessity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?

3. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

4. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."

5. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

(see the answer key)

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