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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brook claims, "Personally, I find staging _______ can be more thoroughly enjoyable than any other form of theatre."
(a) A musical.
(b) An opera.
(c) A mime show.
(d) A Surrealist production.

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

3. For which Shakespearean play is it true that "as long as scholars could not decide whether this play was a comedy or not, it never got played"?
(a) Measure for Measure.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) King Lear.
(d) The Tempest.

4. Joan Littlewood dressed her soldiers as what to create an alienation effect?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Pierrots.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Parrots.

5. 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) Community builder.
(d) Visceral artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who allegedly saw a play for the first time in their lives and were confronted with Waiting for Godot with no problem at all in following what, to regular theatre-goers, was incomprehensible?
(a) San Quentin prisoners.
(b) A circus troupe.
(c) The Chinese army.
(d) School children.

14. "Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of" what?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Playwriting.
(c) Acting.
(d) Theatre conditions.

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

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

3. 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."

4. In rehearsals, what is the relationship the author establishes?

5. The author believes the science of theatre building demands studying what it is, which brings about the most what?

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