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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. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Common sense.
(b) The audience.
(c) Money.
(d) Reality.

2. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Honest.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Proud.
(d) Popular.

3. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Goneril.
(d) Emilia.

4. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."
(a) Love.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Art.
(d) Sex.

5. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Marat/Sade.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) The Investigation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."

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

3. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?

4. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?

5. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?

(see the answer key)

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