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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. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Pinter.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Beckett.
2. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?
(a) Respect.
(b) Bigotry.
(c) Violence.
(d) Censorship.
3. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(d) La Boheme.
4. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Living Theatre.
(b) The Laboratory.
(c) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(d) The Motion Picture Industry.
5. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) What.
(b) Where.
(c) Why.
(d) When.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
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. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
4. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
5. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
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