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

2. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) House of Flowers.

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Cinema.
(b) Burlesque.
(c) Television.
(d) Art museums.

4. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Cunningham.
(d) Brook.

5. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."
(a) Desperation.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which actor "is reaching inside himself for an alphabet that is also fossilized, for the language of signs from life that he knows is the language not of invention but of his conditioning"?

2. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?

3. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

4. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

5. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?

(see the answer key)

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