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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. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?
(a) Moliere.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Williams.
(d) Brecht.

2. In America, the author writes, "Years ago, ______ came into being to give a faith and continuity to those unhappy artists who were being so rapidly thrown in and out of work."
(a) The Stella Adler Studio.
(b) The Neighborhood Playhouse.
(c) The Stanislavsky Method.
(d) The Actor's Studio.

3. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) The most.
(b) The least.
(c) Creatively.
(d) Intricately.

4. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?
(a) Moscow and Ukraine.
(b) Paris and Sicily.
(c) Budapest and Moscow.
(d) Norway and Ireland.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?

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

4. A word is an end product which begins with what?

5. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

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