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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 is the earliest relationship during the performance/rehearsal process?
(a) Director/actor/audience.
(b) Director/designer/actor.
(c) Director/designer/audience.
(d) Director/subject/designer.

2. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Questioning.
(b) Obscurity.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Light.

3. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Pierrots.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Monkeys.

4. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, because appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) The Representative.
(d) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?

5. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Faust.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

Short Answer Questions

1. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."

2. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

3. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."

4. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

5. Who wrote Ubu Roi?

(see the answer key)

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