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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?
(a) Gardot.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Pierrot.
(d) Grotowski.

2. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?
(a) Style.
(b) Manner.
(c) Falseness.
(d) Baseness.

3. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Grotowski's.
(b) Cunningham's.
(c) Beckett's.
(d) Brook's.

4. "The job of shifting oneself totally from one character to another--a principle on which all of Shakespeare and all of Chekhov is built--is a _______ task at any time."
(a) Easy.
(b) Super-human.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Tangible.

5. Where did the Royal Shakespeare Company's Lear find an unwilling audience?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Connecticut.

6. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?
(a) French Theatre.
(b) Shakespearean Theatre.
(c) Noh Theatre.
(d) Indian Theatre.

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

8. "By using language illogically, by introducing the ridiculous in speech and the fantastic in behaviour, an author of the __________ opens up for himself another vocabulary."
(a) Surrealist Theatre.
(b) Theatre of Realism.
(c) Avant garde Theatre.
(d) Theatre of the Absurd.

9. Which production does the author refer to in Paris which was a flop, so they offered three free performances?
(a) La Boheme.
(b) Sergeant Musgrave's Dance.
(c) Caucasian Chalk Circle.
(d) Les Miserables.

10. There is often a call for performing the classics in what way?
(a) In a modern way.
(b) As they were performed.
(c) As they were written.
(d) Without regard to language.

11. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
(a) A Happening.
(b) A violent outbreak.
(c) An emotional moment.
(d) An ordeal.

12. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

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

14. 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 Meisner Actor.
(c) The Classical Actor.
(d) The Chekhovian Actor.

15. In France, there are how many deadly ways of playing classical tragedy, according to the author?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

Short Answer 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"?

2. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."

3. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?

4. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?

5. A word is an end product which begins with what?

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