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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are audiences doing in "elevating something bad into a success"?
(a) Being idiots.
(b) Lying to the authors.
(c) Cheating the critics.
(d) Cheating themselves.

2. The author contends that the whole of pop music is a series of what on a level to which we have access?
(a) Journeys.
(b) Superficiality.
(c) Discoveries.
(d) Rituals.

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

4. 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.

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

6. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?
(a) Merce Cunningham.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Catherine Fitzmaurice.
(d) Winter Stephenson.

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

8. What artist does the author refer to as a visionary who leads a theatre company in Poland?
(a) Travis Kendowski.
(b) Chaim Potok.
(c) Andreas Bryg.
(d) Jerzy Grotowski.

9. 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) Siam Opera Company.
(d) Xing Opera Company.

10. Who does the author say is the most influential of modern writers?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Clifford Odets.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Tennessee Williams.

11. "A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of ______ to be engaged."
(a) Drama.
(b) Theatre.
(c) Art.
(d) Magnitude.

12. In regard to music, the author says we may make a personality cult of whom?
(a) The soloist.
(b) The song writer.
(c) The musician.
(d) The conductor.

13. 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) King Lear.
(d) Hamlet.

14. What play does the author describe his enjoying producing in America rather than in England?
(a) Marat/Sade.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) The Investigation.
(d) Hamlet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."

2. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?

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

4. "In Grotowski's terminology, the actor allows a role to '_____' him."

5. In America, the author writes, "Years ago, ______ came into being to give a faith and continuity to those unhappy artists who were being so rapidly thrown in and out of work."

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