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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 theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?
(a) Love.
(b) War.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Idealism.

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."
(a) Tangible.
(b) Incomprehensible.
(c) Easy.
(d) Super-human.

3. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?
(a) Comedie Francaise.
(b) Theatre de Francaise.
(c) The West End.
(d) Broadway.

4. 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?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."

2. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

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

4. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?

5. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

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