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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. Who wrote Ubu Roi?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Alfred Jarry.

2. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?
(a) Ham actors.
(b) Set designers.
(c) Lighting designers.
(d) Written plans.

3. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Beckett's.
(b) Cunningham's.
(c) Grotowski's.
(d) Brook's.

4. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Love.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Worship.
(d) Ritual.

5. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Costume designer.
(b) Community builder.
(c) Scene designer.
(d) Visceral artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?

2. 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"?

3. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

4. 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."

5. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?

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