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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 "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Grotowski's.
(b) Brook's.
(c) Cunningham's.
(d) Beckett's.

2. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) A Winter's Tale.

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

4. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?
(a) A happy ending.
(b) A sad ending.
(c) A noble aim.
(d) A generous spirit.

5. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Jenet.
(c) Grotowski.
(d) Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."

3. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

4. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

5. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?

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