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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. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?
(a) Critics.
(b) Directors.
(c) Actors.
(d) Designers.

2. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Discoveries.
(c) Journeys.
(d) Superficiality.

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

4. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Holy Theatre.
(b) Bad Theatre.
(c) Deadly Theatre.
(d) Immediate Theatre.

5. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Henry VI.
(d) Henry IV.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?

2. "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."

3. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

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

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