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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. With whom did the author institute a group with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre called the Theatre of Cruelty?
(a) Celice Dayton.
(b) Charles Marowitz.
(c) Arthur Miller.
(d) Harold Pinter.

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

6. What "can be anywhere, any time, of any duration: nothing is required, nothing is taboo"?
(a) A violent outbreak.
(b) An ordeal.
(c) A Happening.
(d) An emotional moment.

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

8. 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) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

12. Who challenged Stanislavsky, proposing a different style of playing?
(a) Adler.
(b) Meyerhold.
(c) Chekhov.
(d) Meisner.

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

14. Of whom does the author say, "His aim continually is holy, metaphysical, yet he never makes the mistake of staying too long on the highest plane"?
(a) Pinter.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Artaud.

15. 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"?
(a) Schindler.
(b) Stanislavsky.
(c) Meyerhold.
(d) Gordon Craig.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."

2. 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"?

3. The author opines that "today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre" with what?

4. In which traditional theatre do actors pass knowledge orally from father to son?

5. Who from the Martha Graham company has evolved a ballet company whose daily exercises are a continual preparation for the shock of freedom?

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