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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 the "lie" that the secret patronage of going to the theatre is?
(a) That it will be bad.
(b) That the truth is waiting.
(c) That the gift is worth receiving.
(d) That the honor is privilege.

2. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Realism.
(b) Glory.
(c) Truth.
(d) Unreal.

3. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?
(a) Deadly.
(b) Silent.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Specific.

4. What does the author contend is "the only trouble with violent shocks"?
(a) That they are false.
(b) That they arrest thought.
(c) That they are empty.
(d) That they wear off.

5. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."
(a) Penetrate.
(b) Swallow.
(c) Embody.
(d) Engulf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?

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"?

3. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

4. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?

5. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."

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