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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. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?
(a) Anna Karena.
(b) The Brothers Karamazov.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

2. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?
(a) The climax of fear.
(b) The climax of relief.
(c) The climax of silence.
(d) The climax of intent.

3. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?
(a) A Rough play.
(b) A series of events.
(c) A Holy play.
(d) An enlightened tale.

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) California.
(b) Connecticut.
(c) New York.
(d) Philadelphia.

5. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Understanding of truths.
(b) Creative impulses.
(c) Imperial gestures.
(d) Beliefs in ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?

2. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

3. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

4. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

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

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