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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. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Pinter.
(d) Artaud.
2. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?
(a) A Winter's Tale.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Anthony and Cleopatra.
(d) Hamlet.
3. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Meisner Actor.
(b) The Chekhovian Actor.
(c) The Classical Actor.
(d) The Method Actor.
4. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: per haps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Marxist.
(b) Dadaist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Absurdist.
5. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Vivid relationship between people.
(b) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Separation of the spectators.
Short Answer Questions
1. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
2. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
3. Of what does the author write, "three needs be come one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
4. "When the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear toured through Europe, the production was steadily improving and the best performances lay between" where?
5. Who "influenced Europe for half a cen tury through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
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