View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Pretending to be a tree.
(c) Weeping uncontrollably.
(d) Screaming loudly.

3. "Occasion, Event, Happening--the words are..." what?
(a) Opposing.
(b) Interchangeable.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Positive.

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

5. "There is eventually a need for _______ to reach the ultimate compactness and focus that collective work is almost obliged to miss."
(a) Actors.
(b) Magnitude.
(c) Authorship.
(d) Creativity.

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

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

8. The author refers to Broadway not as a jungle, but a what?
(a) Machine.
(b) Man.
(c) Monster.
(d) Forest.

9. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."
(a) When.
(b) Why.
(c) What.
(d) Where.

10. 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) Waiting for Godot.
(b) Endgame.
(c) Happy Days.
(d) Krapp's Last Tape.

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

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

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

14. According to Brook, "We can try to capture the invisible but we must not lose touch" with what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Money.
(d) The audience.

15. What does the author refer to Meyerhold's experiments as?
(a) Bio-mechanical.
(b) Humanistic.
(c) Physiological.
(d) Psychological.

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. Where did the author see a production in which a young actor "stood in front of a very old one and spoke and mimed the role with him like a reflection in a glass"?

3. 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"?

4. What does "Deadly Theatre" mean?

5. According to the author, "the moment a lover speaks, or a king utters, we rush to give them a" what?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 481 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample