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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 challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Adler.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Meisner.

2. Which actor "is reaching inside himself for an alphabet that is also fossilized, for the language of signs from life that he knows is the language not of invention but of his conditioning"?
(a) The Immediate Actor.
(b) The Grotowski Actor.
(c) The Method Actor.
(d) The Classical Actor.

3. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Interchangeable.
(c) Opposing.
(d) Dangerous.

4. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Happenings.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Absurdism.

5. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Rough Theatre."
(b) "The Instinctive Theatre."
(c) "The Deadly Theatre."
(d) "The Immediate Theatre."

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the two British actors the author compares in "The Immediate Theatre," which is intuition-based?

2. 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"?

3. What is the theatre district in London called?

4. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

5. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

(see the answer key)

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