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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. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) Henry VI.

2. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?
(a) The Houngan.
(b) The Krobodos.
(c) The Voodoo.
(d) The Magic Man.

3. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Vision of truth.
(b) Tear to the eye.
(c) Social change.
(d) Radical anarchy.

4. What does the author say is "a sign and is an illustration--so it is a fragment of language"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Impulse.
(c) Action.
(d) Symbol.

5. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?
(a) Peter Sellers.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?

2. 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."

3. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?

4. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?

5. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

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