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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author writes that "a most powerful explanation of the various arts is that they talk of..." what?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Light.

3. The author writes that "the theatre of the Absurd did not seek the ____ for its own sake."
(a) Glory.
(b) Truth.
(c) Unreal.
(d) Realism.

4. What play does the author use as an example of the actor's inability to play "adjectives"?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

5. The author says of Deadly Theatre, that "just the right degree of _______ is a reassuring guarantee of a worthwhile event."
(a) Boringness.
(b) Intellectualism.
(c) Celebration.
(d) Spectacle.

6. Who, according to the author, "was trained to reject cliché imitations of reality and to search for something more real in himself."
(a) The Chekhovian Actor.
(b) The Meisner Actor.
(c) The Method Actor.
(d) The Classical Actor.

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

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

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

10. Whose "plays are symbols in an exact sense of the word. A false symbol is soft and vague: a true symbol is hard and clear"?
(a) Tennessee Williams.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Harold Pinter.
(d) James Joyce.

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

12. 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 lack of culture.
(b) The creative impulse doesn't exist.
(c) The price is too high.
(d) The work is too shabby.

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

14. Whose "theatre is as close as anyone has got to Artaud's ideal"?
(a) Cunningham's.
(b) Brook's.
(c) Beckett's.
(d) Grotowski's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author contends that "we do not know how to celebrate, because we do not know ____ to celebrate."

3. Within a constrained time allotted for rehearsal, what cannot occur, according to the author?

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

5. What is the Haitian voodoo priest called?

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