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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 job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Easy.
(b) Tangible.
(c) Super-human.
(d) Incomprehensible.

2. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?
(a) Israel.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Czechoslavakia.

3. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?
(a) Jarry.
(b) Robeieux.
(c) Cocteaux.
(d) Zouicher.

4. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Happenings.
(d) Absurdism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

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

3. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?

4. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?

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

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