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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Immediate Theatre, part 2 (p 134 to 157).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) Two months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One week.

2. 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"?
(a) Paul Scofield.
(b) John Gielgud.
(c) Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Peter O'Toole.

3. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."
(a) True.
(b) Transformed.
(c) Desolate.
(d) Devastated.

4. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Boringness.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Intellectualism.

5. Brook claims there are two ways of "speaking about the human condition: there is the process of inspiration" and the process of what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Fear.
(c) Honest vision.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?

2. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?

3. From which of Shakespeare's plays is the line, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day", which the author uses as an example in "The Immediate Theatre"?

4. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

5. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?

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