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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which production of Genet's did the author direct in Paris where it was necessary to mix actors of very different backgrounds?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) The Emperor's Theme.
(d) The Balcony.

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

3. What is the only "interesting difference" between the theatre and the cinema?
(a) The cinema shows big stars.
(b) There is no violence in theatre.
(c) The cinema flashes images from the past.
(d) There is no immediacy in the theatre.

4. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?
(a) Actor/director/audience.
(b) Director/actor/audience.
(c) Actor/subject/audience.
(d) Audience/director/actor.

5. In which Shakespearean play is a main character named Cornelia?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) Faust.

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

7. 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) Alfred Jarry's.
(b) Antoine Artaud's.
(c) Spike Milligan's.
(d) Martha Graham's.

8. The author believes that an architect of the theatre is better off if he works like a what?
(a) Costume designer.
(b) Scene designer.
(c) Community builder.
(d) Visceral artist.

9. 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) Elizabethan.
(b) Brechtian.
(c) French.
(d) Pagan.

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

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

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

13. 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) Peter O'Toole.
(c) Paul Scofield.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

14. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To aid in remembering lines.
(b) To forget their worries.
(c) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(d) To find a system of Truth.

15. "The moment of performance, when it comes, is reached through two passageways--the foyer and the..." what?
(a) Exit.
(b) Orchestra pit.
(c) Balcony.
(d) Stage door.

Short Answer Questions

1. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?

2. "If rehearsals are short, ______ is inevitable--but everyone deplores it, naturally," according to the author.

3. What words does the author refer to as lines from Madame Butterfly?

4. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?

5. What is the third element for creating and defining theatre, according to the author, described as the life that an audience brings into the theatre every time a play is performed?

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