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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Holy Theatre, part 2 (p 61-72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Method Actor.
(b) The Meisner Actor.
(c) The Classical Actor.
(d) The Chekhovian Actor.

2. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Shepard.
(b) Sletteland.
(c) Pinter.
(d) Williams.

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

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Beliefs in ideals.
(b) Imperial gestures.
(c) Creative impulses.
(d) Understanding of truths.

5. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
(a) The Laboratory.
(b) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Dead Theatre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

2. The theatre has often been called what?

3. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

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

5. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

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