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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 that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Space.
(c) Economic.
(d) Artistic.

2. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?
(a) Close to us.
(b) On a screen.
(c) In the air.
(d) At a remote distance.

3. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) New York.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) California.

4. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Brook's.
(b) Cunningham's.
(c) Beckett's.
(d) Grotowski's.

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

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. Every work and every period has its own what?

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

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."

5. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."

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