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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. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Motion Picture Industry.
(c) The Laboratory.
(d) The Theatre of Cruelty.

2. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Honest vision.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desire.

3. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) Creatively.
(b) Intricately.
(c) The most.
(d) The least.

4. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
(a) French Theatre.
(b) Indian Theatre.
(c) Noh Theatre.
(d) Shakespearean Theatre.

5. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Cruelty.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Happenings.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."

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

4. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

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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