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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Unreal.
(b) Glory.
(c) Truth.
(d) Realism.

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

4. 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 1960s.
(c) The 1800s.
(d) The 1920s.

5. The author writes, "Of course nowhere does the Deadly Theatre install itself so securely, so comfortably and so slyly as in the works of" whom?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Williams.
(c) Moliere.
(d) Shakespeare.

6. "In the theatre, the tendency for centuries has been to put the actor" where?
(a) At a remote distance.
(b) On a screen.
(c) Close to us.
(d) In the air.

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

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

9. The author writes of productions in Russia of classical Shakespearean works which rehearsed for how long, yet were unable to perform as well as a hack company?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five months.
(d) One year.

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

11. "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) Theatre of Realism.
(b) Surrealist Theatre.
(c) Avant garde Theatre.
(d) Theatre of the Absurd.

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

13. What play does the author juxtapose against Peter Weiss' play for an example of clarity of meaning?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Henry V.

14. What form of theatre does the author discuss first in the book?
(a) Immediate Theatre.
(b) Holy Theatre.
(c) Bad Theatre.
(d) Deadly Theatre.

15. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?
(a) Harold Pinter.
(b) Celice Dayton.
(c) Charles Marowitz.
(d) Arthur Miller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?

2. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?

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

4. Who "wanted the theatre to contain all that normally is reserved for crime and war"?

5. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?

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