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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. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The song writer.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The soloist.
(d) The musician.

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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 Chekhovian Actor.
(b) The Method Actor.
(c) The Classical Actor.
(d) The Meisner Actor.

4. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?
(a) Specific.
(b) Nonexistent.
(c) Silent.
(d) Deadly.

5. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Light.
(d) Patterns.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

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

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

4. 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"?

5. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?

(see the answer key)

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