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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 the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?
(a) Bio-mechanical.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Humanistic.
(d) Psychological.

2. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A Deadly Theatre.
(b) A true theatre of joy.
(c) A fight for truth.
(d) A competition with film.

3. Who wrote Ubu Roi?
(a) Antoine Artaud.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

4. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?
(a) Ubu Roi.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Screens.

5. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."
(a) A critic.
(b) Another actor.
(c) A director.
(d) An audience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?

2. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?

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

4. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."

5. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?

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