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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, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Weeping uncontrollably.
(b) Pretending to be a tree.
(c) Screaming loudly.
(d) Standing on a cliff.

2. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Formosa Opera Company.
(b) Xing Opera Company.
(c) Siam Opera Company.
(d) Pekin Opera Company.

3. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A misery.
(b) A religion.
(c) A waste.
(d) A whore.

4. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Space.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Economic.

5. "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) Tangible.
(c) Easy.
(d) Super-human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

2. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

3. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?

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

5. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."

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