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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. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Les Miserables.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(d) Caucasian Chalk Circle.

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

3. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Albee.
(d) Brecht.

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

5. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Immediate Theatre.
(b) The Holy Theatre.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?

2. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

3. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

4. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?

5. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."

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