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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 the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Houngan.
(b) The Voodoo.
(c) The Krobodos.
(d) The Magic Man.

2. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Truth.
(b) Unreal.
(c) Realism.
(d) Glory.

3. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Gordon Craig.
(d) Martha Graham.

4. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Finding truth.
(b) Artistic risks.
(c) True impulse.
(d) Creative explosion.

5. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Engulf.
(b) Swallow.
(c) Penetrate.
(d) Embody.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?

2. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."

3. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?

4. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

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