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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. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Romance.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Realism.

2. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?
(a) Falseness.
(b) Manner.
(c) Style.
(d) Baseness.

3. What does the author refer to as "The Theatre of the Invisible-Made-Visible"?
(a) The Dead Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Immediate Theatre.
(d) The Holy Theatre.

4. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Journeys.
(b) Rituals.
(c) Discoveries.
(d) Superficiality.

5. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Merce Cunningham.
(b) Jerzy Grotowski.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?

2. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?

3. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."

4. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?

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?

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