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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 contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) Where.
(b) When.
(c) Why.
(d) What.

2. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."
(a) Williams.
(b) Albee.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Marlowe.

3. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Instinctive Theatre."
(b) "The Deadly Theatre."
(c) "The Rough Theatre."
(d) "The Immediate Theatre."

4. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Deadly Theatre.
(b) Holy Theatre.
(c) Bad Theatre.
(d) Immediate Theatre.

5. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A Happening effect.
(b) A fortitude.
(c) An alienation effect.
(d) A realization.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?

2. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

3. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

4. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?

5. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?

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