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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. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Truth.
(b) Unreal.
(c) Realism.
(d) Glory.

2. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?
(a) Set designers.
(b) Ham actors.
(c) Written plans.
(d) Lighting designers.

3. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?
(a) Endgame.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) Happy Days.
(d) Krapp's Last Tape.

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

5. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."
(a) Style.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Roughness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that, "All through the world theatre audiences are ______".

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?

4. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?

5. What does the "inner man" express only in his words?

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