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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. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Imperial gestures.
(b) Understanding of truths.
(c) Beliefs in ideals.
(d) Creative impulses.

2. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Final Hour.

3. In rehearsals, what is the relationship the author establishes?
(a) Director/audience/actor.
(b) Actor/audience/director.
(c) Actor/designer/director.
(d) Actor/subject/director.

4. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Worship.
(d) Love.

5. The theatre is "the last forum" where what is still an open question?
(a) Idealism.
(b) Love.
(c) War.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. A word is an end product which begins with what?

3. 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"?

4. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?

5. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?

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