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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. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Creativity.
(b) Authorship.
(c) Magnitude.
(d) Actors.

2. 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) Comedie Francaise.
(b) Broadway.
(c) Theatre de Francaise.
(d) The West End.

3. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) An impulse.
(b) A thought.
(c) An idea.
(d) A motion.

4. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The song writer.
(b) The soloist.
(c) The musician.
(d) The conductor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

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

3. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?

4. The theatre has often been called what?

5. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

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