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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 theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Jerzy Grotowski.

2. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Magic Man.
(b) The Krobodos.
(c) The Houngan.
(d) The Voodoo.

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Television.
(b) Cinema.
(c) Art museums.
(d) Burlesque.

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

5. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Glory.
(b) Realism.
(c) Unreal.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?

2. What is the theatre district in London called?

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

4. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?

5. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?

(see the answer key)

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