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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. 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?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) Five months.

2. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
(a) A Happening.
(b) An ordeal.
(c) A violent outbreak.
(d) An emotional moment.

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

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

5. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Xing Opera Company.
(b) Pekin Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Siam Opera Company.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?

2. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?

3. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

4. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

5. 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"?

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