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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. "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."
(a) Theatre of Realism.
(b) Avant garde Theatre.
(c) Theatre of the Absurd.
(d) Surrealist Theatre.

2. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Jerzy Grotowski.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

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

4. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Cheating themselves.
(b) Being idiots.
(c) Cheating the critics.
(d) Lying to the authors.

5. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The audience.
(c) Money.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?

2. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?

3. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

5. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?

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