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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A word is an end product which begins with what?
(a) A motion.
(b) An idea.
(c) A thought.
(d) An impulse.

2. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?
(a) Bad theatre.
(b) Avant garde theatre.
(c) Intense theatre.
(d) Great theatre.

3. The author writes, "In Haitian voodoo, all you need to begin a ceremony is a ____ and people."
(a) Drum.
(b) Stage.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Pole.

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

5. The author points out that the best dramatists explain themselves how (regarding stage direction)?
(a) The most.
(b) Intricately.
(c) Creatively.
(d) The least.

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

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

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

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

10. What group is led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina?
(a) The Dead Theatre.
(b) The Living Theatre.
(c) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(d) The Laboratory.

11. Where did the author, in 1946, encounter children piling into a space to watch two clowns?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) The Hamburg Opera.
(c) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(d) The London Globe.

12. When did the author first go to Stratford?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1949.

13. The author claims that a "true symbol" is what?
(a) Silent.
(b) Specific.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Nonexistent.

14. 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) Pierrot.
(b) Grotowski.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Gardot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?

2. 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?

3. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?

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

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

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