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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is Artaud's three-minute play, which the author produced first at his "Theatre of Cruelty"?
(a) Endgame.
(b) The Last Stand.
(c) Spurt of Blood.
(d) Agony in Waiting.

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

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

5. After a production of Love Labour's Lost, what did the author throw out and never work with again?
(a) Ham actors.
(b) Set designers.
(c) Lighting designers.
(d) Written plans.

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

7. 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) Godard.
(b) Fellini.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Lynch.

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

9. 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"?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Romance.
(d) Realism.

10. 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?
(a) Assistance.
(b) Representation.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?

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