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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. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Economic.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Space.
(d) Artistic.

2. 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."
(a) Freedom.
(b) Sex.
(c) Art.
(d) Love.

3. Every work and every period has its own what?
(a) Eloquence.
(b) Cadence.
(c) Mannerism.
(d) Style.

4. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A fight for truth.
(b) A Deadly Theatre.
(c) A competition with film.
(d) A true theatre of joy.

5. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Meyerhold.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?

3. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?

4. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."

5. Who wrote The Three Sisters?

(see the answer key)

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