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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. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Artistic risks.
(b) Finding truth.
(c) Creative explosion.
(d) True impulse.

2. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A mime show.
(b) A musical.
(c) An opera.
(d) A Surrealist production.

3. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Penetrate.
(b) Engulf.
(c) Swallow.
(d) Embody.

4. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Harold Pinter.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) James Joyce.

5. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."
(a) Beauty.
(b) Style.
(c) Roughness.
(d) Holiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

3. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?

4. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

5. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

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