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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 1 (p 47 to 61).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The musician.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The song writer.
(d) The soloist.

4. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Harold Clurman.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) James Jackson.

5. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) Without regard to language.
(b) In a modern way.
(c) As they were written.
(d) As they were performed.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

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

3. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

4. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

(see the answer key)

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