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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 that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Light.
(d) Patterns.

2. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) An impulse.
(b) An idea.
(c) A motion.
(d) A thought.

3. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Immediate Theatre.
(b) The Holy Theatre.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

4. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Authorship.
(b) Actors.
(c) Magnitude.
(d) Creativity.

5. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(b) The lack of culture.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The price is too high.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?

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

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

4. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

5. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."

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