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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 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)?
(a) Old Vic.
(b) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(c) The Berliner Ensemble's.
(d) The Swan Theatre.

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

3. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) Interchangeable.
(d) Opposing.

4. Of the two British actors the author compares in "The Immediate Theatre," which is intuition-based?
(a) Daniel Day-Lewis.
(b) Paul Scofield.
(c) Peter O'Toole.
(d) John Gielgud.

5. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Money.
(b) Common sense.
(c) The audience.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?

2. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?

3. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

4. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?

5. "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."

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