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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. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?
(a) Arthur Miller.
(b) Celice Dayton.
(c) Harold Pinter.
(d) Charles Marowitz.

2. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Drama.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Art.
(d) Magnitude.

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

4. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Gordon Craig.
(d) Martha Graham.

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?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?

2. "The actor's work is never for _______, yet always is for one."

3. Who wrote Ubu Roi?

4. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

5. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."

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