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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In rehearsals, what is the relationship the author establishes?
(a) Actor/audience/director.
(b) Actor/subject/director.
(c) Actor/designer/director.
(d) Director/audience/actor.

2. In what show is the climax of the first part one in which the stage action is a scribbling graffiti of war on to vast white surfaces, while a monument is formed to colonialism and revolution?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) The Screens.
(c) Ubu Roi.
(d) Hamlet.

3. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Cunningham.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Brook.

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

5. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?
(a) Demandingly.
(b) Illogically.
(c) Viscerally.
(d) Logically.

6. What is the earliest relationship during the performance/rehearsal process?
(a) Director/subject/designer.
(b) Director/designer/audience.
(c) Director/actor/audience.
(d) Director/designer/actor.

7. 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?
(a) Peter Sellers.
(b) Peter Brook.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

8. Which playwright does the author hold in the greatest esteem as one who combines the Rough Theatre with the Holy Theatre?
(a) Albee.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Brecht.
(d) Beckett.

9. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Gordon Craig.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Martha Graham.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

10. 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"?
(a) John Gielgud.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Paul Scofield.
(d) Peter O'Toole.

11. "The epic writer of _____ plays seldom brings to his work this same fine sense of human individuality: perhaps because he is unwilling to regard a man's strength and a man's weakness with equal impartiality."
(a) Marxist.
(b) Dadaist.
(c) Absurdist.
(d) Surrealist.

12. 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."
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

14. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Anthony and Cleopatra.
(d) A Winter's Tale.

15. The Rough Theatre deals with men's what?
(a) Souls.
(b) Love.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The moment of performance, when it comes, is reached through two passageways--the foyer and the..." what?

2. In the cinema, who, according to the author, has single-handedly brought about a revolution by showing how relative the reality of a photographed scene can be?

3. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?

4. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."

5. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?

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