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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Truth.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Representation.

2. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?
(a) Representation.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

6. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Deadly.
(b) Proud.
(c) Popular.
(d) Honest.

7. Who does the author describe as perhaps the most idiosyncratic of all theatre artists?
(a) Critics.
(b) Designers.
(c) Directors.
(d) Actors.

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

9. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?
(a) Experimenting.
(b) Performing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Rehearsing.

10. The author contends that ______ "is a model of a theatre that contains Brecht and Beckett, but goes beyond both."
(a) Williams.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Albee.

11. The true meaning of a theatre piece only becomes apparent when an audience is what?
(a) Listening.
(b) Rapt.
(c) Present and reacting.
(d) Alive.

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

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

14. Who wrote Ubu Roi?
(a) Alfred Jarry.
(b) Antoine Artaud.
(c) Merce Cunningham.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

15. What are some of the physical aspects of the alienation effect?
(a) Realistic furniture.
(b) Placards and visible spotlights.
(c) Sun lighting.
(d) All of the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Three Sisters?

2. In performance, what is the relationship the author establishes?

3. The author writes of the architecture of theatres in saying, "as for theatres, the problem of design cannot start" how?

4. No tribute to the latent power of the theatre is as telling as that paid to it by what?

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

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