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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "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) Gets raves.
(c) Makes more money.
(d) Bombs.

3. Which company is mentioned by the author as using time well, rehearsing approximately 12 months for performances?
(a) The National Theatre.
(b) The Berliner Ensemble.
(c) Comedie Francaise.
(d) The Pekin Opera.

4. What is the theatre district in London called?
(a) SoHo.
(b) West End.
(c) East End.
(d) Broadway.

5. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) One week.

6. The theatre has often been called what?
(a) A misery.
(b) A waste.
(c) A whore.
(d) A religion.

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

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

9. What British playwright does the author laud, who also works as a director and performer?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Sletteland.
(c) Shepard.
(d) Williams.

10. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?
(a) Finding truth.
(b) Artistic risks.
(c) Creative explosion.
(d) True impulse.

11. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Merce Cunningham.
(c) Jerzy Grotowski.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

12. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) House of Flowers.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) La Boheme.

13. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?
(a) Standing on a cliff.
(b) Weeping uncontrollably.
(c) Screaming loudly.
(d) Pretending to be a tree.

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

15. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Celebration.
(b) Boringness.
(c) Intellectualism.
(d) Spectacle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?

2. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

3. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?

4. "When we accept Beckett's statement as it is, then suddenly all is _______."

5. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?

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