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

2. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Fellini.
(c) Godard.
(d) Lynch.

3. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."
(a) Subjective.
(b) Honest.
(c) Objective.
(d) True.

4. When did the author first go to Stratford?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1961.

5. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."
(a) Transformed.
(b) True.
(c) Desolate.
(d) Devastated.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?

2. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?

3. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

4. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

5. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

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