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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. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To forget their worries.
(b) To find a system of Truth.
(c) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(d) To aid in remembering lines.

2. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?
(a) Representation.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Truth.
(d) Assistance.

3. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?
(a) Applause.
(b) Necessity.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Label.

4. Who "spent his life railing against the theatre of illusion, but his most treasured memories were of painted trees and forests and his eyes would light up as he described effects of trompe d'Å“il"?
(a) Gordon Craig.
(b) Schindler.
(c) Stanislavsky.
(d) Meyerhold.

5. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?
(a) "Have a whiskey."
(b) "Gone fishing."
(c) "Take me home."
(d) "Give me peace."

Short Answer Questions

1. The theory of what is: "a spectator can be jolted eventually into new sight, so that he wakes to the life around him"?

2. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?

3. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

4. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?

5. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?

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