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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 does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?
(a) Humanistic.
(b) Physiological.
(c) Bio-mechanical.
(d) Psychological.

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. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Jerzy Grotowski.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

4. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Schindler.
(b) Gordon Craig.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Meyerhold.

5. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Henry V.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?

4. 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?

5. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

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