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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 says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Boringness.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Intellectualism.
(d) Celebration.

2. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Creative explosion.
(b) Finding truth.
(c) Artistic risks.
(d) True impulse.

3. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Magnitude.
(b) Art.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Drama.

4. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

5. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Adler.
(b) Meisner.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Meyerhold.

Short Answer Questions

1. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

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

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