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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Measure for Measure.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) The Tempest.

3. 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) Shakespeare.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Jean Genet.

4. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A musical.
(b) A mime show.
(c) An opera.
(d) A Surrealist production.

5. 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) Theatre.
(b) Banality.
(c) Truth.
(d) Language.

6. From which of Shakespeare's plays is the line, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day", which the author uses as an example in "The Immediate Theatre"?
(a) King Lear.
(b) A Winter's Tale.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

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

8. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?
(a) Vivid relationship between people.
(b) Connectedness with the stage and audience.
(c) Separation of the spectators.
(d) Holiness.

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

10. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Henry VI.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Henry IV.

11. The author claims that the price of being a great tragedian or musical conductor is that "the material you use to create these imaginary people who you can pick up and discard like a glove" is what?
(a) Gone.
(b) Your own flesh and blood.
(c) A shadow.
(d) A ghost in the darkness.

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

13. What equation does the author give for the formula we are about to be upon?
(a) Theatre = R C T.
(b) Theatre = R r a.
(c) Theatre = Nrt.
(d) Theatre = Honor Nobility.

14. "Whenever one has a real critical flop, for the remainder of the run there is always a small audience of..." what?
(a) Cautious ticketpayers.
(b) Great enthusiasm.
(c) Grand critics.
(d) Haters.

15. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?
(a) Robeieux.
(b) Jarry.
(c) Cocteaux.
(d) Zouicher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

2. What is the "lie" that the secret patronage of going to the theatre is?

3. "In work with a designer, a sympathy of _____ is what matters most."

4. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?

5. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."

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