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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 refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Monster.
(b) Forest.
(c) Man.
(d) Machine.

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

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

4. What does the "inner man" express only in his words?
(a) Fear and desire.
(b) Anarchy and poetry.
(c) Lust and rage.
(d) Love and hatred.

5. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?
(a) The orchestra.
(b) The stage.
(c) The footlights.
(d) The Curtain.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."

2. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."

3. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?

4. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

5. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

(see the answer key)

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