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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?
(a) "Give me peace."
(b) "Gone fishing."
(c) "Have a whiskey."
(d) "Take me home."

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

3. What does the author say is "a sign and is an illustration--so it is a fragment of language"?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Action.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Impulse.

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

5. "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) Style.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Holiness.

6. Who wrote The Three Sisters?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Brecht.

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

8. Whose theatre, "in which the imagination, freed by anarchy, flies like a wild bat in and out of every possible shape and style," has it all?
(a) Antoine Artaud's.
(b) Spike Milligan's.
(c) Alfred Jarry's.
(d) Martha Graham's.

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

10. 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) A Winter's Tale.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

11. Of the two British actors the author compares in "The Immediate Theatre," which is intuition-based?
(a) Peter O'Toole.
(b) Paul Scofield.
(c) Daniel Day-Lewis.
(d) John Gielgud.

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

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

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

15. 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?
(a) Fellini.
(b) Godard.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Lynch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What French surrealist of the theatre does the author mention in "Rough Theatre"?

2. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?

3. The author writes that "most people could live perfectly well without any ____ at all--and even if they regretted its absence it would not hamper their functioning in any way."

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

5. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?

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