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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what does the author write, "three needs become one: it exists for the sake of performing, it earns its living through performing and its performances contain the most intense and intimate moments of its collective life"?
(a) The Theatre of Cruelty.
(b) The Motion Picture Industry.
(c) The Living Theatre.
(d) The Laboratory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the author contend that we have lost all sense of in modern times?
(a) Love.
(b) Ritual.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Worship.

11. "A director dealing with elements that exist outside of himself can cheat himself into thinking his work more ______ than it is."
(a) Subjective.
(b) Objective.
(c) True.
(d) Honest.

12. "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) Incomprehensible.
(b) Tangible.
(c) Easy.
(d) Super-human.

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

14. What is the name of Peter Weiss' play about Auschwitz, which the author uses in example?
(a) Final Hour.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) The Diary of Anne Frank.
(d) The Investigation.

15. What is fast disappearing from modern-day life?
(a) Creative impulses.
(b) Understanding of truths.
(c) Imperial gestures.
(d) Beliefs in ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author writes, "Years ago I saw a girl at the Actors' Studio approaching a speech of Lady Macbeth's by..." doing what?

2. What used to be the great symbol of a whole school of theatre?

3. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?

4. "On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season's hit" does what?

5. 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"?

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