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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. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A fortitude.
(b) A Happening effect.
(c) An alienation effect.
(d) A realization.

2. "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) Roughness.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Style.

3. What does the "inner man" express only in his words?
(a) Love and hatred.
(b) Fear and desire.
(c) Lust and rage.
(d) Anarchy and poetry.

4. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?
(a) Realism.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Romance.
(d) Absurdism.

5. 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) Shakespeare.
(b) Chekhov.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."

2. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?

3. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

4. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

5. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?

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