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

Multiple Choice 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."
(a) Sex.
(b) Art.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Love.

2. What director/playwright was rooted in the cabaret?
(a) Bertolt Brecht.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Peter Brook.
(d) Meyerhold.

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

4. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) Henry IV.
(d) Hamlet.

5. 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.

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

7. 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) Your own flesh and blood.
(b) Gone.
(c) A ghost in the darkness.
(d) A shadow.

8. From what play does the author quote the line, "It was in the year of 18-- that a young student, Roman Rodianovitchi Raskolnikov..."?
(a) Anna Karena.
(b) Waiting for Godot.
(c) The Brothers Karamazov.
(d) Crime and Punishment.

9. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?
(a) Gordon Craig.
(b) Samuel Beckett.
(c) Martha Graham.
(d) Antoine Artaud.

10. 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?
(a) The Representative.
(b) The Tempest.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
(d) The Investigation.

11. Who wrote Sergeant Musgrave's Dance?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Alfred Jarry.
(c) John Arden.
(d) Sam Shepard.

12. In what Shakespearean play does the "very subtle construction hinges on the key moment when a statue comes to life"?
(a) Midsummer Night's Dream.
(b) A Winter's Tale.
(c) Hamlet.
(d) King Lear.

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

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

15. 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) Repetition.
(b) Truth.
(c) Representation.
(d) Assistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."

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

4. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?

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

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