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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 production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) La Boheme.
(d) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.

2. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) The Berliner Ensemble.
(b) Comedie Francaise.
(c) The National Theatre.
(d) The Pekin Opera.

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

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

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?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Williams.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

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

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. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?

5. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?

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