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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. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Holy Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Dead Theatre.
(d) The Immediate Theatre.

2. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Necessity.
(b) Label.
(c) Applause.
(d) Feeling.

3. Who wrote the libretto for House of Flowers?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) James Jackson.
(d) Harold Clurman.

4. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?
(a) Winter Stephenson.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Catherine Fitzmaurice.

5. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) As they were performed.
(b) In a modern way.
(c) As they were written.
(d) Without regard to language.

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. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?

3. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?

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

5. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?

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