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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 the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Discoveries.
(b) Superficiality.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Journeys.

2. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) The Berliner Ensemble.
(b) The National Theatre.
(c) The Pekin Opera.
(d) Comedie Francaise.

3. What does the "inner man" express only in his words?
(a) Lust and rage.
(b) Fear and desire.
(c) Love and hatred.
(d) Anarchy and poetry.

4. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Bad theatre.
(b) Great theatre.
(c) Intense theatre.
(d) Avant garde theatre.

5. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Albee.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

2. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

3. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."

4. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?

5. 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?

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