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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose speech in Shakespeare holds the line, "Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter," despite the fact that the character who speaks it is considered "wicked"?
(a) Juliet.
(b) Goneril.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Desdemona.

2. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?
(a) The climax of relief.
(b) The climax of silence.
(c) The climax of intent.
(d) The climax of fear.

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Siam Opera Company.
(b) Xing Opera Company.
(c) Formosa Opera Company.
(d) Pekin Opera Company.

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) Meyerhold.
(b) Stanislavsky.
(c) Schindler.
(d) Gordon Craig.

5. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A fight for truth.
(b) A competition with film.
(c) A Deadly Theatre.
(d) A true theatre of joy.

6. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Method Actor.
(b) The Classical Actor.
(c) The Chekhovian Actor.
(d) The Meisner Actor.

7. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?
(a) Makes less money.
(b) Makes more money.
(c) Gets raves.
(d) Bombs.

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

9. Every work and every period has its own what?
(a) Mannerism.
(b) Style.
(c) Cadence.
(d) Eloquence.

10. What era was a thriving point for Jouvet and Bérard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Clave at the ballet, Don Juan, Amphitryon, La Folk de Chaillot, Carmen, and others?
(a) The 1940s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1800s.
(d) The 1960s.

11. Of what play does the author write, "The optimism of the lady buried in the ground is not a virtue, it is the element that blinds her to the truth of her situation"?
(a) Endgame.
(b) Krapp's Last Tape.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) Happy Days.

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

13. 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) Artaud.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Pinter.

14. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Love.
(c) Sacrifice.
(d) Outrage.

15. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?
(a) Space.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Economic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?

2. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?

3. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?

4. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?

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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