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

2. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?
(a) Catharsis.
(b) Relief.
(c) Tears.
(d) Exhaustion.

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

4. One of the pioneer figures in the movement towards a renewed Shakespeare was whom?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) William Poel.
(c) Bertolt Brecht.
(d) Michael Crandon.

5. "Whenever one has a real critical flop, for the remainder of the run there is always a small audience of..." what?
(a) Grand critics.
(b) Great enthusiasm.
(c) Haters.
(d) Cautious ticketpayers.

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

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

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

9. The aim of acting exercises and improvisation in rehearsals is always the same, according to the actor, which is what?
(a) To get away from Deadly Theatre.
(b) To aid in remembering lines.
(c) To find a system of Truth.
(d) To forget their worries.

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

11. "In rehearsal, form and _____ have to be examined sometimes together, sometimes separately."
(a) Action.
(b) Justification.
(c) Content.
(d) Writing.

12. Which production of Genet's did the author direct in Paris where it was necessary to mix actors of very different backgrounds?
(a) Waiting for Godot.
(b) Ubu Roi.
(c) The Balcony.
(d) The Emperor's Theme.

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

14. In which play does Leontes accuse his wife of infidelity?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Anthony and Cleopatra.
(d) A Winter's Tale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's "formula" for creating and defining theatre, the first element is what?

2. "If rehearsals are short, ______ is inevitable--but everyone deplores it, naturally," according to the author.

3. 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"?

4. Who wrote Ubu Roi?

5. What equation does the author give for the formula we are about to be upon?

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