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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. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) William Poel.
(d) Michael Crandon.

2. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Vivid relationship between people.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(d) Separation of the spectators.

3. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Jean Genet.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Creative impulses.
(b) Imperial gestures.
(c) Beliefs in ideals.
(d) Understanding of truths.

5. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Boringness.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Intellectualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

2. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?

3. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

4. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

5. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?

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