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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who theorized the "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Jerzy Grotowski.
(c) Antoine Artaud.
(d) Merce Cunningham.

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

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

8. On the first day of rehearsal of what show did its composer, Harold Arlen, arrive wearing a blue cornflower, with champagne and presents for all?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) La Boheme.
(c) House of Flowers.
(d) Les Miserables.

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

10. 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 1800s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1920s.

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

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

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

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

15. Approximately how long is a rehearsal process in New York, according to the author?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Two months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) One week.

Short Answer Questions

1. "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."

2. According to Brook, "Beckett's dark plays are plays of ______, where the desperate object created is witness of the ferocity of the wish to bear witness to the truth."

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

4. According to the author, "to imitate the externals of acting only perpetuates" what?

5. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?

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