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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 play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

2. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) Where.
(b) Why.
(c) When.
(d) What.

3. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Schindler.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Gordon Craig.

4. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Dishonest.
(b) Brazen.
(c) Naive.
(d) Bold.

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) Roughness.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?

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

3. "Both [rough and holy] theatres feed on deep and true ______ in their audiences."

4. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?

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

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