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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 wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) James Jackson.
(d) Harold Clurman.

2. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) One week.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six weeks.

3. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."
(a) Love.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Religion.
(d) Desperation.

4. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Questioning.
(c) Obscurity.
(d) Light.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

2. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."

3. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

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

5. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?

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