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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Avant garde theatre.
(b) Great theatre.
(c) Bad theatre.
(d) Intense theatre.

2. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Martha Graham.
(d) Gordon Craig.

3. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."
(a) Subjective.
(b) Objective.
(c) True.
(d) Honest.

4. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Theatre.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Art.
(d) Drama.

5. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Cunningham's.
(b) Beckett's.
(c) Grotowski's.
(d) Brook's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every work and every period has its own what?

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

3. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?

4. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?

5. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?

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