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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. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) Marat/Sade.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

2. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Incomprehensible.
(b) Super-human.
(c) Easy.
(d) Tangible.

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

4. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) Where.
(b) Why.
(c) When.
(d) What.

5. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The London Globe.
(b) The Hamburg Opera.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) The Royal Shakespeare Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

2. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

3. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

4. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."

5. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?

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