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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 what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

2. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, because appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?
(a) The Investigation.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
(d) The Representative.

3. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?
(a) Outrage.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) Murder.
(d) Love.

4. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A fight for truth.
(b) A competition with film.
(c) A Deadly Theatre.
(d) A true theatre of joy.

5. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Henry VI.
(d) Hamlet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?

2. In rehearsals, what is the relationship the author establishes?

3. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?

4. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."

5. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?

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