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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 1 (p 110 to 134).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Social change.
(b) Vision of truth.
(c) Radical anarchy.
(d) Tear to the eye.

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Henry V.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

4. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?
(a) Theatre conditions.
(b) Acting.
(c) Playwriting.
(d) Architecture.

5. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The lack of culture.
(b) The work is too shabby.
(c) The price is too high.
(d) The creative impulse doesn't exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?

2. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?

3. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

4. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?

5. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?

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