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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "In rehearsal, form and _____ have to be examined sometimes together, sometimes separately."
(a) Justification.
(b) Action.
(c) Content.
(d) Writing.

2. Of whom does the author say, "can write the most eloquent language, but the amazing impressions in his plays are very often brought about by the visual inventions with which he juxtaposes serious, beautiful, grotesque and ridiculous elements"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Alfred Jarry.
(d) Jean Genet.

3. Who "is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement," according to Brook?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Osbourne.
(d) Pinter.

4. The author states, "When Brecht was alive, it was the ______ of West Berlin who flocked to his theatre in the East."
(a) Nobles.
(b) Czars.
(c) Anarchists.
(d) Intellectuals.

5. "If rehearsals are short, ______ is inevitable--but everyone deplores it, naturally," according to the author.
(a) Foregoing truth.
(b) Type-casting.
(c) Casting.
(d) No direction.

6. The true meaning of a theatre piece only becomes apparent when an audience is what?
(a) Alive.
(b) Listening.
(c) Present and reacting.
(d) Rapt.

7. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Michael Crandon.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) William Poel.

8. "Both [rough and holy] theatres feed on deep and true ______ in their audiences."
(a) Aspirations.
(b) Attention.
(c) Love.
(d) Acceptance.

9. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Bold.
(b) Brazen.
(c) Dishonest.
(d) Naive.

10. Of what does the author describe, "the moment when the illogical breaks through our everyday understanding to make us open our eyes more widely"?
(a) A Happening effect.
(b) A fortitude.
(c) A realization.
(d) An alienation effect.

11. What is the "lie" that the secret patronage of going to the theatre is?
(a) That the gift is worth receiving.
(b) That the honor is privilege.
(c) That it will be bad.
(d) That the truth is waiting.

12. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?
(a) Rough Theatre.
(b) Classical Theatre.
(c) Holy Theatre.
(d) Industrial Theatre.

13. The author says in "The Immediate Theatre", "At least one can see that everything is a _______ for something and nothing is a _______ for everything."
(a) Language.
(b) Banality.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Truth.

14. Meaning and reaction can only be discerned when an audience allows for a moment of transition from the world of the play into what?
(a) The world of life.
(b) The imaginary.
(c) Their dreams.
(d) Their fantasy.

15. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Pierrots.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Monkeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?

2. Of whom does the author write, "never just made a slice of life--he was a doctor who with infinite gentleness and care took thousands and thousands of fine layers off life."

3. What equation does the author give for the formula we are about to be upon?

4. What "is above all an appeal to the spectator to work for himself, so to become more and more responsible for accepting what he sees only if it is convincing to him in an adult way"?

5. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

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