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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 wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Harold Clurman.
(b) James Jackson.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Truman Capote.

2. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
(a) French Theatre.
(b) Noh Theatre.
(c) Indian Theatre.
(d) Shakespearean Theatre.

3. Of whom does the author write, "never just made a slice of life--he was a doctor who with infinite gentleness and care took thousands and thousands of fine layers off life."
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Brecht.

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) Surrealism.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Happenings.
(d) Cruelty.

5. 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) Jean Genet.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author first go to Stratford?

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"?

3. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?

4. Who wrote Ubu Roi?

5. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

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