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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. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, be cause appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?
(a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
(b) The Tempest.
(c) The Represen tative.
(d) The Investigation.
2. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) A Winter's Tale.
(d) Midsummer Night's Dream.
3. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."
(a) Surrealist Theatre.
(b) Avant garde Theatre.
(c) Theatre of Realism.
(d) Theatre of the Absurd.
4. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."
(a) Ritual.
(b) Stage.
(c) Pole.
(d) Drum.
5. The author writes of his book, "if anyone were to try to use it as a handbook, then I can definitely warn him--there are no _______."
(a) Questions.
(b) Answers.
(c) Formulas.
(d) Beliefs.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."
2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
3. 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?
4. Which production of Genet's did the author direct in Paris where it was necessary to mix actors of very different backgrounds?
5. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?
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