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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."
(a) Roughness.
(b) Holiness.
(c) Style.
(d) Beauty.

2. "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) Surrealist.
(b) Absurdist.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Dadaist.

3. The strongest comedy is rooted in what?
(a) Buffoonery.
(b) The magical.
(c) The absurd.
(d) Archetypes.

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

5. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?
(a) Rehearsing.
(b) Experimenting.
(c) Performing.
(d) Reading.

6. "In work with a designer, a sympathy of _____ is what matters most."
(a) Tempo.
(b) Money.
(c) Means.
(d) Expertise.

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

8. The author writes, "What has not been appreciated sufficiently is that the freedom of movement of the ____ theatre was not only a matter of scenery."
(a) Pagan.
(b) French.
(c) Brechtian.
(d) Elizabethan.

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

10. 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)?
(a) Old Vic.
(b) The Royal Shakespeare Company.
(c) The Berliner Ensemble's.
(d) The Swan Theatre.

11. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?
(a) Catharsis.
(b) Relief.
(c) Tears.
(d) Exhaustion.

12. The sort of play that Shakespeare offers us is never just what?
(a) A series of events.
(b) A Rough play.
(c) A Holy play.
(d) An enlightened tale.

13. 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) Ubu Roi.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) The Screens.

14. Which chapter is the most autobiographical to the author?
(a) "The Rough Theatre."
(b) "The Deadly Theatre."
(c) "The Immediate Theatre."
(d) "The Instinctive Theatre."

15. 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 realization.
(b) An alienation effect.
(c) A fortitude.
(d) A Happening effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country produced a television version of Ubu Roi which captivated the audience with its surrealism?

2. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?

3. Meaning and reaction can only be discerned when an audience allows for a moment of transition from the world of the play into what?

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. In Paris, Brook directed what show in which he did all in his power to inhibit applause, because appreciation of the actor's talents seemed irrelevant in a Concentration Camp document?

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