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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. 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"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Harold Pinter.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

2. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?
(a) Spike Milligan's.
(b) Alfred Jarry's.
(c) Martha Graham's.
(d) Antoine Artaud's.

3. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?
(a) La Boheme.
(b) House of Flowers.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) Death of a Salesman.

4. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Realism.
(b) Truth.
(c) Unreal.
(d) Glory.

5. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) One year.
(b) Six years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

2. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?

3. Who wrote The Three Sisters?

4. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

5. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?

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