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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 contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Journeys.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Discoveries.

2. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(b) Final Hour.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) The Investigation.

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

4. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
(a) Makes less money.
(b) Gets raves.
(c) Bombs.
(d) Makes more money.

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?
(a) Les Miserables.
(b) Death of a Salesman.
(c) House of Flowers.
(d) La Boheme.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

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

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

5. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

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