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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Chinese Opera Company came to London and retained touch with its sources, creating something new every night?
(a) Siam Opera Company.
(b) Pekin Opera Company.
(c) Xing Opera Company.
(d) Formosa Opera Company.

2. The author writes of an actor who studied the part of Hamlet for how many years and never played it because the director died before it was finished?
(a) Ten.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. Who told the author, "My search is based on the director and the actor. You base yours on the director, actor, audience. I accept that this is possible, but for me it is too indirect"?
(a) Pierrot.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Gardot.
(d) Grotowski.

4. 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) Moliere.
(b) Williams.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Brecht.

5. 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.

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

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

8. According to the author, with most experimental products, "______ is their complaint and their excuse."
(a) Poverty.
(b) Desperation.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

9. What does the author say is nonexistent in today's world?
(a) A competition with film.
(b) A Deadly Theatre.
(c) A fight for truth.
(d) A true theatre of joy.

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

11. What is the climax of the theatre, which is not the climax of applause?
(a) The climax of relief.
(b) The climax of silence.
(c) The climax of intent.
(d) The climax of fear.

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

13. The author says that we think of what as killing the theatre?
(a) Art museums.
(b) Television.
(c) Burlesque.
(d) Cinema.

14. The author writes that New York has potentially the best audience in the world, but they don't go to the theatre. Why?
(a) The price is too high.
(b) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(c) The work is too shabby.
(d) The lack of culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."

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 writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?

4. In Grotowski's theory, "the act of performance is an act of" what?

5. The author writes that in New York the most deadly element of the theatre is certainly what?

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