The Empty Space Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Empty Space Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 139 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "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) Style.
(b) Roughness.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Beauty.

3. What is the earliest relationship during the performance/rehearsal process?
(a) Director/subject/designer.
(b) Director/actor/audience.
(c) Director/designer/audience.
(d) Director/designer/actor.

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

5. 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) Love.
(b) Art.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Sex.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?
(a) Brecht.
(b) Brook.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Cunningham.

13. "Brecht recognized this and in his last years he surprised his associates by saying that the theatre must be ____."
(a) Naive.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Bold.
(d) Brazen.

14. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Vision of truth.
(b) Radical anarchy.
(c) Tear to the eye.
(d) Social change.

15. Of whom does the author write, "never just made a slice of life--he was a doctor who with infinite gentleness and care took thousands and thousands of fine layers off life."
(a) Brecht.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Beckett.
(d) Chekhov.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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"?

3. "Whenever one has a real critical flop, for the remainder of the run there is always a small audience of..." what?

4. The author says in "The Immediate Theatre", "At least one can see that everything is a _______ for something and nothing is a _______ for everything."

5. Which actor "is reaching inside himself for an alphabet that is also fossilized, for the language of signs from life that he knows is the language not of invention but of his conditioning"?

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